Readability Chrome extension gone - alternatives?

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katzefrau
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09 Aug 2017, 4:18 pm

I don't know if anyone else used the extension Readability for busy web pages that have too much contrast or are hard to read, but it's really important for me .. it's been discontinued. I'm on Chrome, and the extension they recommend is the new Mercury reader but it doesn't appear you can change the font, background color, etc so it doesn't help me a lot.

Anyone have anything to recommend? Thanks.



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10 Aug 2017, 3:17 pm

I would be interested as well. I didn't know Chrome had a visual accessibility plug-in/extension. I looked at the Mercury reader and it appears to extract the text portion of a page and present it in almost a book-like format. For me the white background and bright blue fields as well as thin fonts make reading harder. I'd like to mute the blues, have a yellow background, and have thicker fonts. Microsoft has some visual accessibility tools, but they don't do what I need: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Accessibility/windows