High Contrast

Change or invert the color scheme to make webpages easier to read.

What is High Contrast?

"High Contrast" is a Chrome Extension designed for ease of reading. It applies various high-contrast color filters to web pages, effectively inverting colors where black becomes white and vice versa. This feature can be toggled on/off at ease and is customizable per-site basis. Unlike other extensions, it does not interfere with the site's default colors, hence preventing webpage breakages. However, it doesn't affect photos, built-in pages like New Tab, Settings page, and the Chrome Web store.

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By: chrome-a11y-extensions

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Users: 400,000+

Rating: 3.48 (5,904) ▼ 1 ratings

Version: 0.9.5 (Last updated: 2024-05-23)

Creation date: 2016-11-08

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
tabs

Size: 169.98K

Email: ch*****@google.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 1010 ▼ 9

Other rankings

#546 in Functionality & UI ▼ 1

#42 in change color keyword 15 ▲ 5

#43 in settings keyword 34 ▼ 4

#96 in sheets erweiterung keyword 25 ▲ 2

#100 in sheets extension keyword 12 ▲ 5

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

High Contrast (v0.9.3)

4.20

(12) 4,236+

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Extension summary

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High Contrast lets you browse the web with your choice of several high-contrast color filters designed to make it easier to read text.

When you install this extension, all pages are "inverted", so black becomes white and white becomes black. Press the "browser action" icon in the toolbar to toggle it on and off, or customize your settings on a per-site basis. Use a convenient keyboard shortcut to quickly change your settings while you browse.

Other extensions try to change the default colors, but this ends up breaking many popular websites. Only this extension applies filters to your page that invert almost everything - the only exception is photos, which are left alone.

Also note that the Chrome web store and other built-in pages like the New Tab page and Settings pages are unaffected - extensions like this one are not allowed to modify them, by design.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps users with poor vision and photosensitivity
Ability to toggle settings on certain websites
Greyscale features assist with photosensitivity
Increased contrast improves readability on many sites
Useful for neurodivergent users

Cons

Stopped working during certain updates
Default settings change to inverted colors
Inversion of images and colors can cause issues
Requires frequent troubleshooting and reinstallation
Many users reported problems after updates

Most mentioned

Extension stopped working after May 23, 2024 update
Users frequently had to reinstall the extension
Inconsistent performance across different operating systems
Complaints about specific websites not displaying correctly
Overall positive impact when it operates correctly

Recent reviews

i have both poor vision and photosensitive epilepsy, this extension and the ability to toggle is AMAZING especially because you can set it to not do its thing on certain websites. i messed with my computer settings for hours and nothing proved to be as useful as this extension in making me able to *see* without causing issues with my photosensitivity. in fact i can even use it to help my photosensitivity due to the greyscale features. honestly the only good accessibility extension i have seen and tried out.

Malachi Swartz (Ammo), 2024-09-26

ECCELLENTE, MA DOPO APPENA 3 GIORNI HA SMESSO DI FUNZIONAE!!!! ... ECCHECC4@@0!

Juliet Mora, 2024-08-28

Let's hope the developer upgrades to MV3 or come January we won't be able to run this extension in the latest Chromium browsers which includes Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and more.