Enhance Your Web Browsing Experience with High Contrast Chrome Extension
Are you tired of straining your eyes while reading text on the web? Do you find it difficult to navigate through websites with poor color contrast? Look no further, because the High Contrast Chrome extension is here to revolutionize your browsing experience. With its high-contrast color filters, this extension makes it easier to read text and browse the web effortlessly.
Upon installation, High Contrast applies a unique "inverted" color scheme to all pages you visit. This means that black becomes white, and white becomes black, enhancing the contrast and making text more legible. To toggle the extension on and off, simply click the "browser action" icon in the toolbar. You can also customize your settings on a per-site basis, ensuring optimal readability wherever you go.
What sets High Contrast apart from other extensions is its ability to apply filters that invert almost everything on the page, excluding photos. This means that popular websites remain intact, preventing any disruption or broken layouts that other color-changing extensions may cause. Additionally, built-in pages like the Chrome web store, New Tab page, and Settings pages are unaffected, as extensions are not permitted to modify them.
Convenience is key when it comes to High Contrast. Along with the browser action icon, you can quickly change your settings using a convenient keyboard shortcut while you browse. This allows you to effortlessly adapt the color scheme to your preferences without any disruption to your workflow.
But don't just take our word for it - let's hear from users who have experienced High Contrast firsthand:
- Oscar Javier León Chamorro: "Hasta el momento me ha funcionando sin ningún problema, y me parece lo más sencillo de utilizar." (Translation: "So far it has been working for me without any issues, and it seems to be the easiest to use.")
- Neil Parkinson: "Seems to keep stop working when you go to a different web page, so you have to constantly F5 refresh the screen and even then it sometimes doesn't work. Would be a great app if they could get it fixed and working 100% of the time but at the moment it's unusable, so it's getting removed :-("
- Robert Irelan: "Seems pretty good for my usage, which is reading text-heavy sites at night with inverted colors for sites that don't have their own dark mode."
- Brian Evans: "It constantly toggles off. I had hoped for something that behaved similar to the Windows High Contrast mode but this does not. Slightly disappointed."
- Sean Kennedy: "3 huge problems with this extension... Well, you get the idea."
- Christine Carmichael: "Inverts the colours of images too but has helped."
- Claudio Faria: "This messes up with photos, so it's useless for most sites. The icon (black/white circle) doesn't show. I don't mind using the keyboard, but the difference between Shift+F11 and Shift+F12 is not clear. Sometimes I have to go through the extensions icon to enable it."
- Sarah Trammell: "I can't tolerate dark mode and am currently using a training website, PluralSight, that has that theme. The Inverted Color option gets me to the dark-text-on-white-background look, although it messes with the images as well. That's not really a big deal, but the videos being inverted was a problem when I could not view the videos full-screen."
- Luis F: "Funciona, bien y no tengo que activarla, de nuevo cada vez que, entro en otro sitio." (Translation: "It works fine, and I don't have to activate it again every time I enter another site.")
- Craig Ryan: "Very useful but basic bugs... Reload map page fixes most issues."
As you can see, High Contrast has garnered mixed reviews from users. While some appreciate its simplicity and effectiveness, others have encountered issues with its functionality. However, with a total rating of 3.47 out of 5 stars, it is evident that this Chrome extension has value to offer in improving your web browsing experience.
So why not give High Contrast a try? Enhance the readability of text on the web, browse with ease, and toggle the color scheme to suit your preferences. With its unique approach to high-contrast color filters, this extension aims to make your browsing experience more comfortable and enjoyable.
10 Reviews For This Extension
The "Normal" view causes many discourse based forum to look incorrectly when in dark mode, when High Contrant in Normal color scheme, which should not change anything.
Thank you for this great tool
I love the extension but there's an issue when viewing GitHub's directory structure. The text gets blurred and duplicated. I just reported about it using Google Chrome.
One star because this caused a waste of my time figuring out what broke in Chrome on my recently migrated M2 Mac. Large pages will sometimes flicker into existence for a moment, then go blank. Smaller pages will blank out when scrolling down the page, then become visible again when scrolling back up. Large pages work fine in incognito mode, hinting at an extension. Trying to avoid disabling them one by one, I restarted Chrome from the command line: open -a "Google Chrome" --args --disable-extensions All pages working confirmed it's an extension. Process of elimination fingered this High Contrast extension alone. Now I see it has been reported broken for days with no response from the dev. Removing it entirely!
2023/07/23 Since the recent update of Chrome this extension keeps pages from loading. It appears that a page finishes loading and then go completely blank (all white). Disabling this extension is the only way to see the pages.
WOULD BE NICE IF THE DEVELOPERS GAVE AN UPDATE AS TO WHEN THIS WILL BE FIXED. This little white screen issue cost me $100 to have my computer person remote in to figure out where this problem was originating from. I've been using this extension for years.
It worked well until the latest update. Since then it's a white on white screen...
it suddenly caused one of my gmail to go blank when enabled. i have 3 gmail tabs and one of them went white/blank screen. the other gmail tabs and other sites are OK. can't explain why?
Not bad, but latest version (0.9.3 w. Chrome 115) has some big problems: flickering screens and black screens.
It was good while it works, but it stopped working today on most sites, just leaves a blank white screen