Dyslexia Formatter

WIP Extension that will make browsing the internet easier for dyslexic people.

What is Dyslexia Formatter?

Dyslexia Formatter is a Chrome Extension meant to stylize websites in a way that will make it easier to read for people affected by dyslexia. It changes fonts and background colors to improve accessibility and includes a text-to-speech feature.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-02-05

By: dyslexiaformatter

Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.33 (6)

Version: 0.0.0.6 (Last updated: 2017-04-06)

Creation date: 2017-04-06

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
tabs
http://*/*
https://*/*
storage

Size: 2.71M

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Summary

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Dyslexia Formatter is a Chrome Extension meant to stylize websites in a way that will make it easier to read for people affected by dyslexia. Due to the majority of websites’ usage of serif fonts, it is harder for dyslexic people to read these sites. This small extension hopes to style the text and background color, using sans-serif fonts to replace the standard fonts websites use in order to increase accessibility for these users, to their preference.

With the press of the tilde (~) key you will have the ability to select portions of the website that you wish to format.

Change the stylings that you wish to use, in the forms of text, background color, overlay, and paragraph spacing.

Any text that is still hard to read can be read using the speech synthesizer included.

Usage- Upon installation:

Go to any website and press the tilde (~) key.
Press the backslash () key to enable and disable the overlay
Hover your mouse over any section you wish to change (it will be highlighted), and upon clicking said section, the selected stylistic changes will be applied.
Click on the same section again in order to revert the changes.

User reviews

Pressing the ~ key does not appear to do anything, is this because I am using a UK keyboard layout?

Ridley, 2018-05-16

I was looking for good TTS software. And this one is the most promising so far. But it needs a bit of work imo: - Reading should be accessible in 2 clicks (right click > click on extension icon. And than Stop on pressing extension icon in top right corner) - Extension should not be reading interpunction signs. If you fix those 2 things this should be perfect TTC software imo.

Mali Gugl, 2017-05-07

It works well, but when I close the tab, the text to speech doesn't stop and there isn't a way to stop it. Also can there be a link in the extension that directs to this page. Thank you

David D'Onofrio, 2017-02-16

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Risk impact

Dyslexia Formatter is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Dyslexia Formatter if you trust the publisher.