Readabler

Read any website your way — fonts, contrast, spacing, reading masks and six accessibility profiles, on every page you open.

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 — removes pictures and leaves the space, so text-first reading stays possible on image-heavy pages. • Hide emoji — strips emoji out of running text, which matters if a screen reader is announcing every one of them. • Mute sounds — silences audio and video on the page, without touching your system volume. ─────────────────────────────────────────── EVERYWHERE, OR JUST THIS SITE ─────────────────────────────────────────── By default your settings are global: whatever you switch on applies to every page you open, in the same way, forever, without you touching the panel again. That is the point — you set up how you read once, and the web adapts. But some sites need their own treatment. A dark-mode dashboard you already like. A documentation site where hiding images loses the diagrams. A news site you only ever read with the mask on. Switch any site to "Only this site" and it keeps its own independent copy of every setting, while everything else carries on using your global profile. Adjustments apply live to the tab you are on. There is no reload, no flash of unstyled page, no waiting. On single-page apps that render new content as you navigate, the extension notices and re-applies your sizing to whatever just appeared. The panel itself follows your system light or dark preference and is available in 16 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. ─────────────────────────────────────────── SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED — PLEASE READ BEFORE INSTALLING ─────────────────────────────────────────── Readabler for Chrome requires an active Readabler browser-extension subscription. This is stated plainly here so nobody installs it expecting otherwise. • The extension is free to install, and the panel opens without an account, but no adjustment is applied to any page until an active subscription is confirmed. • Sign in at account.readabler.com, subscribe to the browser-extension plan, and the extension picks up your existing browser session automatically. There is no licence key to paste and no second password. • A trial is available on the plans page so you can test the extension against the sites you actually read before paying for it. • If you already pay for Readabler as a website owner — the accessibility widget you install on your own site — please note that this is a separate product with a separate subscription. The website plan does not include the browser extension, and the browser-extension plan does not include the website widget. They are billed separately. • If your subscription lapses or you sign out, the extension locks immediately and the panel points you at the plans page. Nothing is silently degraded. • If the account service is temporarily unreachable — your connection dropped, you are on a plane, the service is having a bad day — your last confirmed subscription keeps working for seven days. Someone who relies on this extension to read the web should not lose that because of a network problem. A definite "not subscribed" answer, on the other hand, takes effect at once. Manage or cancel your subscription at any time from your account. Cancelling stops the adjustments; it does not remove or damage anything on the sites you visited. ─────────────────────────────────────────── PRIVACY, AND WHY THE PERMISSIONS LOOK LIKE THAT ─────────────────────────────────────────── Readabler does not track you. There is no analytics in the extension, no advertising identifier, and no profile of your browsing built anywhere. • Your reading history is not collected. The extension does not send the URLs you visit to any server. Per-site settings are stored on your own device, keyed by hostname, and stay there. • Your settings are stored locally in the browser's own extension storage. • The only network request the extension makes is to your Readabler account, to ask one question: is this subscription active? That check runs roughly every six hours and whenever your sign-in state changes. No page content is included in it. • Page content never leaves your browser. Every adjustment is CSS and DOM work performed locally, on your machine, in the tab you are looking at. There is no server-side rendering, no proxy and no text sent anywhere for processing. The permissions the extension asks for, and exactly what each is for: • Read and change data on the sites you visit — required, because adjusting a page is literally what this extension does. There is no way to change the typeface on a page without access to that page. • Tabs — to apply your settings to the tab that is currently in front of you and to update an already-open tab when you change a switch. • Storage — to keep your settings and your per-site overrides on your device. • Cookies — to notice when you sign in or out of your Readabler account, so the panel unlocks and locks at the right moment. • Alarms — to schedule the periodic subscription check, rather than polling constantly. Everything the extension runs ships inside the extension package. In line with Chrome's Manifest V3 rules, no code is downloaded and executed at runtime. Full privacy policy and terms: readabler.com ─────────────────────────────────────────── WHAT THIS EXTENSION DOES NOT DO ─────────────────────────────────────────── Stated honestly, so expectations are set before you install: • No text-to-speech, no voice navigation and no virtual keyboard. Those features exist in the Readabler website widget, where they depend on the account API and the in-page environment; they are not part of the extension. • This is a personal reading tool, not a compliance tool. It changes how sites look for you. It does not make the sites you visit accessible for anyone else, and installing it does not make any website WCAG, ADA, Section 508 or EN 301 549 conformant. If you need a site to be accessible to its own visitors, that is the Readabler website widget, which is a different product. • It is not a screen reader. It works alongside one — the Blind users profile is built for exactly that — but it does not replace VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS or Narrator. • Some pages will resist. Content inside cross-origin iframes, canvas-rendered or WebGL-rendered text, and text baked into images cannot be restyled by any extension, including this one. Sites with unusually aggressive stylesheets may need a nudge from the colour overrides. ─────────────────────────────────────────── WHO THIS IS FOR ─────────────────────────────────────────── • Readers with dyslexia, who want OpenDyslexic, wider letter spacing and a warmer background without asking every site to provide them. • Readers with low vision, who need real scaling and real contrast rather than a marketing page's idea of "accessible". • Readers with ADHD, who lose the line and want a mask, a guide and a page that has stopped moving. • People with photosensitivity or a seizure disorder, who need animation and saturation under their own control, not the site's. • Keyboard-only and switch users, on the very many sites where focus is invisible and tab order is an afterthought. • Anyone with a migraine, a long night of reading ahead, tired eyes, a bad monitor, or simply strong opinions about line height. You do not need a diagnosis to want the web to be easier to read. ─────────────────────────────────────────── COMMON QUESTIONS ─────────────────────────────────────────── Does it work on every website? On effectively every ordinary web page, yes — the extension runs on http and https pages. It cannot run on Chrome's own internal pages, the Chrome Web Store, or other extensions' pages, because Chrome forbids that for every extension. Do I have to set this up again on each site? No. Global is the default and is the intended way to use it: configure once, and every page you open afterwards already looks the way you need. Per-site overrides exist for the exceptions. Will it slow down my browsing? No. The stylesheet is inert until you switch something on, and the adjustments are ordinary CSS and DOM operations applied locally. Does it change what the site's owner sees, or edit the site? No. Nothing is sent to the site and nothing is saved there. The changes exist in your browser, in your tab, for you. Will my settings sync to another computer? Settings are stored on the device you set them on. Your subscription follows your account, so signing in on a second machine unlocks the extension there; you set your adjustments up on that machine once. What happens on a page that loads content as I scroll? The extension watches for new content and re-applies your sizing to it, so infinite-scroll feeds and single-page apps stay adjusted as you go. I already pay for the Readabler widget on my website. Is this included? No — it is a separate subscription. The two products are billed separately. See the subscription section above. Can I use it with a screen reader? Yes. The Blind users and Motor impaired profiles are designed to complement assistive technology rather than interfere with it. ─────────────────────────────────────────── SUPPORT ─────────────────────────────────────────── Readabler is built by a team that has been working on web accessibility for years — the same engine powers the Readabler accessibility widget running on websites around the world. If something does not work on a site you care about, tell us, and name the site: those reports are how the engine gets better. Website: chrome.readabler.com Account and subscription: account.readabler.com Privacy policy, terms and cookie policy: chrome.readabler.com/privacy-policy.html Install it, press Alt+A, and read the web the way you actually read.