Live Accessibility Overlay icon

Live Accessibility Overlay

by balogunkrixus@gmail.com · Developer Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Find accessibility problems on any page, in plain language: contrast, headings, alt text and keyboard order. Checked locally.

Users
317
−71 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
16
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#52K
#44K among extensions
Version
1.1.0
updated 29 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 3 months
0193386Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 317 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 months
0816Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 16 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Live Accessibility Overlay

Accessibility tools usually hand you a wall of rule codes and contrast ratios. This one tells you what is wrong in the words you would actually use, shows you where it is on the page, and moves on to the next thing. HOW IT WORKS Click the icon on any page. You get a short list of problems in plain language — "This text is hard to read", "This image has no description", "Keyboard focus jumps backwards" — sorted by what to fix first, then down the page. Open one and you get why it matters, who it affects, and how to fix it. For colour problems it suggests the closest colour to your original that people can actually read, ready to copy. Only the issue you are looking at is marked on the page, so a page with real problems never turns into a wall of boxes. Press Next to walk through the rest. WHAT IT CHECKS • Text contrast: measured with the standard WCAG formula, compositing translucent backgrounds and inherited opacity, with the correct thresholds for large text • Headings: the full outline, flagging skipped levels, empty headings and a missing H1 • Image descriptions: missing alt text, filenames used as descriptions, and links that contain only an image and so announce as nothing at all • Keyboard order: the route the Tab key takes, flagging positive tabindex, focus that jumps backwards, and off-screen controls that can still be reached It also draws the keyboard path across the page on request, and shows the heading outline as a map you can click through. BUILT WITH CARE ABOUT FALSE POSITIVES Screen-reader-only text and disabled controls are excluded, because neither is a real problem and reporting them is what trains people to ignore a tool. Where a background is an image or a gradient, it says the contrast cannot be measured rather than guessing. FOR DEVELOPERS TOO Every ratio, hex value, CSS selector and WCAG reference is one click away under "Technical details". It's present when you want it, invisible when you do not. PRIVACY Nothing is uploaded, ever. There are no analytics, no accounts, and no network requests of any kind. The extension holds no permission to read any site: it is injected only into the tab you invoke it on, only when you click the icon, and it cannot see a page you have not explicitly opened it on. Everything is measured in your browser. Automated checking catches roughly a third of real accessibility barriers. This will not tell you whether your alt text is any good, whether your reading order makes sense, or whether a form is understandable under stress. Those still need a person.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−46−12.7%00.00
30 days−71−18.3%00.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Live Accessibility Overlay appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
screenshot reader#74new
overlay#78new

Version history

2 versions recorded
1.1.029 Jul 2026
1.0.027 Jul 2026

Details

Category
Developer Tools
First seen
27 Jul 2026
Size
65 KB
Languages
en-GB
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
ibpomfkpjbhbimoofieekpcknpgkeeie

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 0, likelihood 2
Permissions
activeTabscriptingstorage

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