Readabler

The web was not built for the way you read. Readabler fixes that — page by page, everywhere you go. Some sites set body text at 13 pixels. Some run light grey on white. Some animate half the screen while you are trying to finish a sentence. You cannot rewrite those sites, and you should not have to. Readabler puts an accessibility panel in your toolbar and lets you adjust any page you land on: the typeface, the size, the spacing, the contrast, the colours, the motion, the noise. Turn something on once and it stays on — on that site, or on every site you open, whichever you prefer. If you already know Readabler from the accessibility widget on other people's websites, this is the same engine, now working for you on sites that never installed it. Press Alt+A, or click the icon in the toolbar, and the panel opens. ─────────────────────────────────────────── SIX ACCESSIBILITY PROFILES — ONE CLICK EACH ─────────────────────────────────────────── If you do not want to think about individual settings, start with a profile. Each one switches on a considered group of adjustments at once, and every switch it flips stays visible in the panel, so you can see exactly what changed and fine-tune from there. • Visually impaired — a clearer typeface and boosted saturation, so text separates from what is behind it. • Cognitive disability — headings and links are outlined so the structure of the page is obvious, and motion is stopped. • ADHD friendly — a reading mask dims everything except a band around your pointer, and animation stops. What is left is the line you are actually reading. • Seizure safe — animation stops and saturation drops. No flashing, no strobing, no sudden movement. • Blind users — keyboard navigation and a readable font, tuned to work alongside a screen reader rather than fight it. • Motor impaired — full keyboard navigation with a strong, unmissable focus outline, so you can move through a page without precise pointing. Profiles are a starting point, not a cage. Open any group below and change whatever you like. ─────────────────────────────────────────── TEXT ─────────────────────────────────────────── • Content scale — scales the entire page, layout and all, up to 50% larger. Different from browser zoom in that it composes with everything else in the panel. • Font size — text only, up to 100% larger, leaving the layout where it is. Useful on pages where zoom breaks the columns. • Line height — up to 100% more space between lines. The single most effective change for most people who lose their place mid-paragraph. • Letter spacing — up to 100% more space between characters, which measurably helps a lot of dyslexic readers. • Readable font — swaps body text for a clearer, more open typeface, replacing whatever decorative face the site chose. • Dyslexia font — OpenDyslexic, bundled with the extension. Its letters are weighted at the bottom so they are harder to rotate or flip in perception. Nothing is downloaded at the moment you switch it on; the font ships inside the extension. • Cognitive reading — bolds the leading part of every word, giving your eye a fixation point per word. Some people find this transformative and some find it distracting; it is one switch away either direction. • Text alignment — force text left, centre or right, which quietly solves the ragged justified columns that some publishers still insist on. ─────────────────────────────────────────── COLOUR AND CONTRAST ─────────────────────────────────────────── Six page modes, one at a time — turning one on turns the previous one off, because a page can only be in one of them: • High contrast — pushes text and background apart until the separation is unambiguous. • Monochrome — strips every colour to grey. For colour sensitivity, and for cutting the visual noise of heavily branded pages. • Dark contrast — dark background, light text, on sites that never shipped a dark mode. • Light contrast — light background, dark text, on sites that shipped only a dark one. • High saturation — stronger, more vivid colour where the original is too washed out to distinguish. • Low saturation — muted colour, gentler on the eyes over long sessions. And three direct colour overrides, each with a full palette: • Text colour — set the colour of body text yourself. • Heading colour — set headings separately, so they stay distinct from body copy. • Background colour — replace the page background. The cream and pale-yellow backgrounds many dyslexic readers prefer are two clicks away. ─────────────────────────────────────────── ORIENTATION AND READING AIDS ─────────────────────────────────────────── • Reading mask — dims the whole page except a horizontal band that follows your pointer. The digital version of holding a card under the line you are reading. • Reading guide — a bar that tracks your pointer, for people who want a ruler rather than a spotlight. • Text magnifier — enlarges text under the pointer without changing the page, so you can check one line without rescaling everything. • Highlight links — draws a box around every link, so you stop hunting for what is clickable. • Highlight headings — draws a box around every heading, so the page's outline becomes visible at a glance. • Highlight on hover — outlines whatever the pointer is currently over. • Highlight focus — outlines whatever the keyboard is currently on, which repairs the many sites that hide focus rings for aesthetic reasons. • Keyboard navigation — move through the page with Tab and the arrow keys, on sites that never made that work properly. • Large cursor — a much bigger pointer, in black or white, so you can find it and follow it. Pick white for dark pages. ─────────────────────────────────────────── DISTRACTIONS ─────────────────────────────────────────── • Stop animations — freezes motion, transitions, carousels, autoplaying video and animated GIFs. Essential for seizure safety, and a relief for everyone else. • Hide images…