Below is a list of resources for Google products and extensions with their descriptions directly from the Google Chrome page. Extensions can also be accessed at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=en
or with Extensions Manager. There are multiple types of apps which serve the same function, each with subtle differences.
Simply click on the program image to download or learn more.
Accessibility has award winning technology to make text easier to read, modify contrast, remove distracting content from websites and more!
ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, have text read aloud and spell check forms. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers.
Announcify reads out loud every website you want. For example, if you're too tired but still need to study one more Wikipedia entry, Announcify can help your tired eyes relax.
The Chrome Screen Reader extension is a showcase of a fully featured screen reader for the web built using only web technologies such as html and javascript. This extension specifically works within the Chrome browser to read content aloud.
Cite This For Me automatically create website citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles at the click of a button.
Simply browse to the page you wish to cite and click the button to generate a correctly formatted citation. Then copy-and-paste the citation into your assignment, or add it to your online bibliography for safe keeping until later.
Color Enhancer is a customizable color filter applied to webpages to improve color perception, for people who are partially color-blind.
A beautiful Google Chrome extension manager to turn on/off other extensions quickly and easily without leaving your current tab.
You can adjust the brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and the ignore-list.
6. Automatically cross-post to social bookmarking site Delicious (optional)
Ginger for Chrome works directly in your preferred sites and corrects your texts as you type.
3) Store a history of words you've looked up, so you can practice them later.
When you install the High Contrast 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.
Intelligent Speaker: Advanced text to speech reader with a human-like voice. Ultimate language and voice choice. Supports web pages, documents and pdfs. Listen to your content from any device.
Powerful, free to use, digital highlighter for web pages and PDF files. LINER saves all your highlights made across mobile and desktop. All the highlights will magically appear when you re-visit the page. Share highlighted pages instead of sharing the entire article. Leave sentence-level feedback on web pages by leaving comments on the highlights itself. Highlight Everything with LINER.
The Postlight Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.
MyBib automatically create APA style, MLA format, and Harvard referencing style citations with our citation generator add-on for Chrome.
Simply browse to any page on the internet (including PDFs) and click the MyBib button to generate an automatically formatted citation for that page.
NaturalReader - Text To Speech, is a chrome extension that converts text online into natural sounding audio. Simply press play and have your Emails, Websites, PDFs, Google Docs and Kindle Books read aloud to you! With an extensive free version, and two paid premium plans there is a price range for every budget.
Night Shift automatically shifts the colors of your browser content to the warmer end of the color spectrum after dark.
Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials.
Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles.
Speak It app converts text into speech on any websites. Select words or paragraphs and then just listen. Useful and convenient Speak It for everyone in six supported languages.
Read two or three times faster, with SwiftRead. Absorb knowledge and learn more.
Use SwiftRead, the highest rated and most popular speed reading extension of its kind, to speed read through text in your browser!
TLDR This is a chrome extension (+ web app) that can take a painfully long piece of text and sum it up into five key bullet points using the power of NLP.
Listen to news, wiki articles & more, directly on their websites.
Zoom is a lightweight and useful add-in designed to get a perfect zoom experience. And if you have a bad vision (eye problem), or Lazy eye, or amblyopia. You can improve your vision on the current website with the Zoom browser extension. Increase the zoom slider to choose your best zoom scale.