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Re:Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackabl... by apsanz on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:40PM (#20558549)
Which specific extensions work well? My wife is visually impaired and she has tried a several extensions. All of them have cause more problems than they have solved. In addition, IE and firefox's attempts to change behavior when using windows high contrast mode also breaks many sites. Safari is the browser that works the most reliably.
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Re:Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackabl... by gnicholas on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:24PM (#20560096)
Well, I'm the founder of BeeLine Reader[1], and our extension is used for speed reading as well as accessibility (vision impairment, dyslexia, ADHD). I don't think it breaks websites, since we let the user decide how aggressively it should try to run. There are also night mode extensions, as well as site-specific ones (like for wikipedia) that are great.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com

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Re:Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackabl... by paulryanrogers on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:03PM (#20559421)
"Dark Background and Light Text" for Firefox has worked for me. Some necessary background images are still invisible, though I chalk those up to bad implementions.
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