What is High Contrast?
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Extension safety
Risk impact
High Contrast requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
High Contrast has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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