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Visor

by softharbour

v2.0.7 Updated Jun 17, 2024 104KiB
CWS
100K
Users
★ 4.01
220 reviews
#186
of 33.8K
accessibility
#10 of 890
⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

Version 2.0.7: Upgrade to Manifest V3 Version 2.0.4: Bug-fixes and updated style. As well as being a great general purpose screen dimmer, Visor's overlays and point of focus feature may be assistive to users with visual perceptual difficulties such as Dyslexia, Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome and Visual Stress. Whilst research shows results vary from person to person, some users may find that the use of overlays can help with fluency, eye-strain, concentration and comprehension whilst reading. In addition to the traditional overlay method, Visor also employs a point of focus feature, designed to further reduce visual confusions and the tendency to skip lines. This horizontal focal point tracks your mouse, giving full focus to the content being read, whilst reducing the visual noise of the surrounding page. Visor requires no special permissions, so must be reactivated with each page load. Note: This extension will not work on Chrome's start page, options pages or the Chrome web store. This is a restriction of chrome. Blue polygonal background designed by Freepik.com
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Reviews (22 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2021-07-27
Sentamarai. V

did not work

★☆☆☆☆2020-01-23
Toby Brockbank-Gash

I doesn't do anything to my display...

★☆☆☆☆2018-07-15
Andrew Farrell

Didn't work at all. No control.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-16
kelly C

have to uninstal

★☆☆☆☆2018-01-06
Yyash Rachelkar

doesnt even work

★☆☆☆☆2017-12-23
Christina Richardson

Literally nothing happened

★☆☆☆☆2017-12-11
Kristy Metcalfe

It didn't dim my page at all. It's not working, or doing anything for that matter!

★☆☆☆☆2017-08-16
敵うものか私

I cannot open this app on google chrome... How to open this? please tell me on revue.

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-03
Manoj Kishore Nayak

doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2016-12-25

not working

★★☆☆☆2024-01-26
Caitlin Kubina

Really buggy, and not a great user interface either.

★★☆☆☆2021-10-14
Ména Go

it doesn't work on my chromebook

★★☆☆☆2018-06-22
Tanmay Sanyal

ok

★★☆☆☆2016-06-09
Gary

Good idea and works well if you are staying on one page. So if you are reading a long article or watching something it's great. But if you're browsing and switching pages you need to re-apply each time you switch a page or a tab. Would give 5 stars if it could be applied and stay applied, but as it is right now it's almost unusable.

★★☆☆☆2016-03-31
Adrian A

~If not for this one thing it'd be perfect. Make it automatically be on on all tabs, cuz right now you have to click the icon for each tab individually. ~No special unnecessary, shady, nosey permissions. ~Safe. ~Set it to how you please. ****TIP****: to just dim the page without color tint: turn all 3 colors to 0 and do the same with the 5th-bar(unless of course you like and/or want/need it) and simply slide the 4th-bar to your liking. And there you go it grays/dims the page, color-free.

★★★☆☆2024-10-07
Anna Bessmertnaya

Great extension, has helped me focus with reading my online textbooks and long articles so that I don't get distracted or lose my place as fast. However, a great number of what I need to read is on a PDF, which Visor doesn't work with at all, doesn't even turn on for me. Additionally, I wish there was a way for the center highlighted section to not also dim when you turn the extension on, since it makes it harder to read and strains my eyes. If these things were fixed, it'd be awesome and very useful, but unfortunately I don't see myself using it that often right now because of these features.

★★★☆☆2023-03-06
Liam

This would be great if the extension didn't also dim the highlighted section. disappointing as it could be a perfect alternative to the read & write screen masking tool otherwise...

★★★☆☆2022-02-28
Jasmin

Love the idea off this extension, let's you focus and reduces eye strain. How do you get it to work on pdfs? I tried to use visor to read an online pdf but the line doesn't seem to follow the cursor, just stays stuck in the middle?

★★★☆☆2021-02-18
Taelor roz

It worked pretty well but after the start of this semester, every time I try to move the bar as I read, it either stays in the middle of the screen or gets stuck on the very top of the page, where the menu bar on most websites sits.

★★★☆☆2020-09-09
Carolina Alvarez

It works great but not on pdfs opened in the browser. The extension still kinda works but the highlighted portion doesn't move with my cursor, this problem only happens with pdfs and embedded documents.

★★★☆☆2020-02-10
Jen Ridge

The visor follows your mouse it cannot be set at one height. Annoying. Other than that it was great idea.

★★★☆☆2016-06-19
Levi Morningstar

The only issue i have is how the app needs to be activated when you change tabs or pages. Would be five stars if the settings were universally applied until turned off manually.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 2.0.7
Updated Jun 17, 2024
Size 104KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026