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Better Text View for Chrome
Tech Specs
- • Type: Browser Extension
- • Latest Version: 5.1.0
- • Price: Freeware
- • Offline: No
- • Developer: sssss wwwww
User Reviews
- • Rating Average
- 4 out of 5
- • Rating Users
- 6
Download Count
- • Total Downloads
- 18
- • Current Version Downloads
- 1
- • Updated: March 30, 2024
Better Text View is a free Accessibility Extension for Chrome. You could download the latest version crx file or old version crx files and install it.
More About Better Text View
NEW CHANGES
In Dark mode, if both "Underline links" and "Input border" are enabled, brightness and contrast apply to more elements and images (but distort colors of some images).
Lightness value shown in popup settings.
Revert font sizes to older and more stable calculations.
Brightness Slider is now independant of the Strength slider and controls brightness in Reverse colors and Dark mode.
If strength is an ODD number, input textbox color is changed to black/white depending on its color.
Slight speed improvement in changing font sizes.
In Reverse colors the brightness and contrast sliders control brightness and contrast of text and background color.
Color shades of text (and backgrounds somewhat) can be made similar to original site by enabling "Reverse colors hue correction".
Finally fixed Content Security frames which could not be styled, are now handled as regular frames.
"Skip text height changes" which avoid changing font heights of text whose height is less than font size, and INPUT elements like text and select boxes, now unsets line height changes when enabled.
Activate on all websites option fixed. If it is disabled, only whitelisted sites will be changed.
New option to add custom CSS rules to the site
The site colors are computed and if it finds site has a black theme and either of "Dark mode" or "Reverse Colors" is enabled, these modes are disabled. If site has a light theme, then "Reverse colors" is enabled. To override changes to computed site theme, enable both "Dark mode" and "Reverse Colors"
"Underline black links / Sans Font" & "Input border / Serif Font" change all fonts to Sans-Serif & Serif independantly.
When Font Weight slider value is less than 500, the "Start 3 letters bold" have weight equal to (Slider value + 400) and all other text has weight of slider. If slider is greater than 400, that value is taken as Font weight for the bold 3 letters and all other text is normal weight.
"Underline black links / Sans Font" now changes ALL font styles to Sans-Serif, and "Input border / Serif font" to Serif.
Starting 3 letters bold and ALL CAPITAL TEXT work with NON-ENGLISH languages also.
IMPORTANT: When the settings of "Font increase %" and "Font Threshold" are VERY HIGH, to make text appear MUCH BIGGER, the browser's "Text Size" Setting SHOULD ALSO BE CHANGED TO "LARGE/VERY LARGE" or "16 px to 24 px". Otherwise on some sites OVERLAPPING/CUTTING of text MAY occur.
DO NOT ENABLE BOTH "Dark Mode" and "Force Reverse Colors". This condition is not considered and there will be problems in results.
VERY IMPORTANT WARNING: If you are COPY+PASTE-ing from a website which has been changed by this plugin, DISABLE the plugin for that site and THEN copy + paste. Otherwise a lot of styling changes will also get pasted which is not on the original site.
As warned below, if you are using HTML Editors in software like Wordpress or similar, disable the plugin for that site to prevent styling changes from being entered in the HTML editor.
ALSO IF YOU TAKE A PRINTOUT OF WEBPAGE changed by this extension, IT MAY NOT PRINT CORRECTLY. SO KEEP THE "Disable for this site" option ENABLED when PRINTING.
DISABLE PLUGIN = Select "Disable Better Text View for this site" option on Options menu or DISABLE "Activate on all websites" in All Settings, whichever is preferred.
ABOUT EXTENSION
TL;DR
This extension is for people who need reading glasses / spectacles due to far-sight / long-sight / hypermetropia / hyperopia / presbyopia.
Font size within threshold is enlarged inversely with font size. That means small text made bigger than large text.
"Strength" slider greater than 200 makes most text all black / white on light / black background, while negative values keeps original colors.
Font Weight slider changes thin/bold-ness of text as well as bold and normal letters weight when "Start 3 letters bold" is enabled.
ALL CAPITAL TEXT & Starting 3 letters made bold options.
Change Font style of ALL Fonts of site to Sans-serif or Serif, by enabling "Underline black links / Sans Font" or "Input border / Serif font".
Dark mode changes Contrast and Brightness of "black" themed sites.
Reverse colors makes a light colored site "reverse" colored, and the text brightness and contrast can be changed by the sliders.
"Force Reverse Colors" is a color inverter, making white background black, and black bg. white, while images are normal (unless "Invert Image colors" is disabled, which will also reverse image colors).
The popup options show the "Lightness" value of current site. If less than 0.5, then it is "Dark themed", if more than 0.5, it is "Light themed". Dark themed sites can be changed by "Dark mode" while "Light themed" sites can be changed by "Reverse Colors".
Enable "Skip NAV & Section" or "Skip text height change" if input elements are made too large or some column of text is overlapping another column or menus are not "correct".
Enabling "Apply custom CSS for site" will allow you to enter custom CSS rules for the site
DETAILS
This extension is helpful for people who require reading glasses / spectacles due to far-sight / long-sight / hypermetropia / hyperopia / presbyopia condition of eyes.
Brightness Slider now controls the brightness of text/background in Reverse colors and Dark mode, leaving Strength slider to handle the text contrast.
The text size is increased inversely depending on its size. This means small sized text is made much bigger than larger text, which is slightly increased in size. All text within size of Threshold setting is increased in size with text closer to Font Threshold size increasing less than text much lower size than Threshold, depending of Font Increae % setting.
Frames inside of site are also applied (only if from same origin site).
The colors of text are changed for maximum contrast depending on value of "Strength" slider (unless "Avoid colorful text" is selected which skips "colorful" text and skips WHITE text if "Skip white text" option is enabled.
By increasing "Strength" setting to above 200, the text can be made black on light background or white on black background (if dark mode is enabled) depending on brightness of background color ("Avoid colorful text" and "Skip white text" is ignored).
Decreasing "Strength" setting to negative values like -120 or -250 can restore the original text colors of website instead of high contrast black / white text.
If Strength is ODD value, and there are INPUT text boxes on site, the input text will be made black / white depending on color.
The "Font Weight" slider can be changed to lowest 100 (very thin) upto 900 (very thick/bold) text. This is useful for adjusting sites having very thin text or very bold and thick text. When "Start 3 letters bold" is enabled, (slider value + 400) is taken as weight of bold letters and noramal text has weight of (slider value) if slider is less than 500. For slider above 400, the slider value is taken as weight of 3 letters and all other text is normal.
ALL CAPITAL TEXT option makes all site text in capitals. It ALSO works on NON-ENGLISH languages.
Starting 3 letters bold option makes all words first 3 letters bold and also works for NON-ENGLISH languages. If there are problems with some links or menus not working, enable "Skip links in 3 letters bold" option to avoid making links bold.
If "Underline black links / Sans Font" or "Input border / Serif Font" is enabled, ALL Fonts styles are changed to Sans-serif or Serif. If BOTH are enabled in Dark mode, then brightness and contrast are applied to more elements and images (which can distort colors of some images).
The Dark Mode option is for black themes or black theme which allows increasing of Brightness (by the "Strength" slider) and contrast (by the "Contrast" slider) of text and background colors.
A "Force Reverse Colors" option allows site to "Reverse" colors, so that a light site becomes black and a black one becomes light. It is useful for changing colors of sites to "Dark Theme" or "Dark Reader" view while preserving (most of) images' colors. In case a webpage does not have its background color reversed, enabling "Force max opacity" will force a reversal of the background color.
The "Invert Image Colors" option, which appears when "Force Reverse Colors" is enabled, causes images and videos colors to be inverted, so due to double inversion images and videos become normal. If it is disabled, the images and videos are not doubly inverted in color, causing them to look "reverse color".
Reverse color hue correction changes colors to match original website in reverse colors.
The text brightness and contrast can be changed by the sliders when "Reverse colors" is enabled. To revert to original brightness and contrast, set Strength to 0 and Contrast to 50.
The popup options show the "Lightness" value of current site. If less than 0.5, then it is "Dark themed", if more than 0.5, it is "Light themed". Dark themed sites can be changed by "Dark mode" while "Light themed" sites can be changed through "Reverse Colors". Some few sites may detect wrong theme, in which case enable BOTH Dark mode and Reverse colors to force site color changes.
The menu and large sections of site are increased in size according to the Font Increase % and Input elements increased by Font Threshold. If there are problems in display of menus / header imaages or large tables overlap, enable "Skip NAV & SECTION" checkbox. The "Skip NAV & SECTION" also skips applying Reverse Color to images inside NAV and HEADER elements, which are (usually) on top menu of website, when "Force Reverse colors" is enabled.
"Skip text height changes" will not change heights of text, and INPUT elements like text and select boxes, as well as unset line heights of changed text sizes.
Enabling "Apply custom CSS for site" will allow you to enter custom CSS rules for the site
Additional features are input box borders, underlining of links, forcing maximum opacity of transparent elements and saving/loading of settings whitelists/blacklists,
VERY IMPORTANT WARNING: If you are COPY+PASTE-ing from a page which has been changed by this plugin, DISABLE the plugin for that site and THEN copy + paste. If you are editing or submitting HTML content online using a content management system like Wordpress or having an HTML Editor, DISABLE this extension for that particular site. Otherwise, the HTML will contain unwanted styling elements generated by the extension.
WHEM PRINTING A PAGE modified by this extension, KEEP "Disable for this site" enabled otherwise the PRINTING WON'T BE CORRECT.
SUGGESTIONS OR ISSUES
If you have any bugs other than known "can't fix", or suggestions, post them on https://codeberg.org/sameerw/btv/
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
In Dark mode, if both "Underline links" and "Input border" are enabled, brightness and contrast apply to more elements and images (but distort colors of some images).
Lightness value shown in popup settings.
Revert font sizes to older and more stable calculations.
Brightness Slider is now independant of the Strength slider and controls brightness in Reverse colors and Dark mode.
If strength is an ODD number, input textbox color is changed to black/white depending on its color.
Slight speed improvement in changing font sizes.
In Reverse colors the brightness and contrast sliders control brightness and contrast of text and background color.
Color shades of text (and backgrounds somewhat) can be made similar to original site by enabling "Reverse colors hue correction".
Finally fixed Content Security frames which could not be styled, are now handled as regular frames.
"Skip text height changes" which avoid changing font heights of text whose height is less than font size, and INPUT elements like text and select boxes, now unsets line height changes when enabled.
Activate on all websites option fixed. If it is disabled, only whitelisted sites will be changed.
New option to add custom CSS rules to the site
The site colors are computed and if it finds site has a black theme and either of "Dark mode" or "Reverse Colors" is enabled, these modes are disabled. If site has a light theme, then "Reverse colors" is enabled. To override changes to computed site theme, enable both "Dark mode" and "Reverse Colors"
"Underline black links / Sans Font" & "Input border / Serif Font" change all fonts to Sans-Serif & Serif independantly.
When Font Weight slider value is less than 500, the "Start 3 letters bold" have weight equal to (Slider value + 400) and all other text has weight of slider. If slider is greater than 400, that value is taken as Font weight for the bold 3 letters and all other text is normal weight.
"Underline black links / Sans Font" now changes ALL font styles to Sans-Serif, and "Input border / Serif font" to Serif.
Starting 3 letters bold and ALL CAPITAL TEXT work with NON-ENGLISH languages also.
IMPORTANT: When the settings of "Font increase %" and "Font Threshold" are VERY HIGH, to make text appear MUCH BIGGER, the browser's "Text Size" Setting SHOULD ALSO BE CHANGED TO "LARGE/VERY LARGE" or "16 px to 24 px". Otherwise on some sites OVERLAPPING/CUTTING of text MAY occur.
DO NOT ENABLE BOTH "Dark Mode" and "Force Reverse Colors". This condition is not considered and there will be problems in results.
VERY IMPORTANT WARNING: If you are COPY+PASTE-ing from a website which has been changed by this plugin, DISABLE the plugin for that site and THEN copy + paste. Otherwise a lot of styling changes will also get pasted which is not on the original site.
As warned below, if you are using HTML Editors in software like Wordpress or similar, disable the plugin for that site to prevent styling changes from being entered in the HTML editor.
ALSO IF YOU TAKE A PRINTOUT OF WEBPAGE changed by this extension, IT MAY NOT PRINT CORRECTLY. SO KEEP THE "Disable for this site" option ENABLED when PRINTING.
DISABLE PLUGIN = Select "Disable Better Text View for this site" option on Options menu or DISABLE "Activate on all websites" in All Settings, whichever is preferred.
ABOUT EXTENSION
TL;DR
This extension is for people who need reading glasses / spectacles due to far-sight / long-sight / hypermetropia / hyperopia / presbyopia.
Font size within threshold is enlarged inversely with font size. That means small text made bigger than large text.
"Strength" slider greater than 200 makes most text all black / white on light / black background, while negative values keeps original colors.
Font Weight slider changes thin/bold-ness of text as well as bold and normal letters weight when "Start 3 letters bold" is enabled.
ALL CAPITAL TEXT & Starting 3 letters made bold options.
Change Font style of ALL Fonts of site to Sans-serif or Serif, by enabling "Underline black links / Sans Font" or "Input border / Serif font".
Dark mode changes Contrast and Brightness of "black" themed sites.
Reverse colors makes a light colored site "reverse" colored, and the text brightness and contrast can be changed by the sliders.
"Force Reverse Colors" is a color inverter, making white background black, and black bg. white, while images are normal (unless "Invert Image colors" is disabled, which will also reverse image colors).
The popup options show the "Lightness" value of current site. If less than 0.5, then it is "Dark themed", if more than 0.5, it is "Light themed". Dark themed sites can be changed by "Dark mode" while "Light themed" sites can be changed by "Reverse Colors".
Enable "Skip NAV & Section" or "Skip text height change" if input elements are made too large or some column of text is overlapping another column or menus are not "correct".
Enabling "Apply custom CSS for site" will allow you to enter custom CSS rules for the site
DETAILS
This extension is helpful for people who require reading glasses / spectacles due to far-sight / long-sight / hypermetropia / hyperopia / presbyopia condition of eyes.
Brightness Slider now controls the brightness of text/background in Reverse colors and Dark mode, leaving Strength slider to handle the text contrast.
The text size is increased inversely depending on its size. This means small sized text is made much bigger than larger text, which is slightly increased in size. All text within size of Threshold setting is increased in size with text closer to Font Threshold size increasing less than text much lower size than Threshold, depending of Font Increae % setting.
Frames inside of site are also applied (only if from same origin site).
The colors of text are changed for maximum contrast depending on value of "Strength" slider (unless "Avoid colorful text" is selected which skips "colorful" text and skips WHITE text if "Skip white text" option is enabled.
By increasing "Strength" setting to above 200, the text can be made black on light background or white on black background (if dark mode is enabled) depending on brightness of background color ("Avoid colorful text" and "Skip white text" is ignored).
Decreasing "Strength" setting to negative values like -120 or -250 can restore the original text colors of website instead of high contrast black / white text.
If Strength is ODD value, and there are INPUT text boxes on site, the input text will be made black / white depending on color.
The "Font Weight" slider can be changed to lowest 100 (very thin) upto 900 (very thick/bold) text. This is useful for adjusting sites having very thin text or very bold and thick text. When "Start 3 letters bold" is enabled, (slider value + 400) is taken as weight of bold letters and noramal text has weight of (slider value) if slider is less than 500. For slider above 400, the slider value is taken as weight of 3 letters and all other text is normal.
ALL CAPITAL TEXT option makes all site text in capitals. It ALSO works on NON-ENGLISH languages.
Starting 3 letters bold option makes all words first 3 letters bold and also works for NON-ENGLISH languages. If there are problems with some links or menus not working, enable "Skip links in 3 letters bold" option to avoid making links bold.
If "Underline black links / Sans Font" or "Input border / Serif Font" is enabled, ALL Fonts styles are changed to Sans-serif or Serif. If BOTH are enabled in Dark mode, then brightness and contrast are applied to more elements and images (which can distort colors of some images).
The Dark Mode option is for black themes or black theme which allows increasing of Brightness (by the "Strength" slider) and contrast (by the "Contrast" slider) of text and background colors.
A "Force Reverse Colors" option allows site to "Reverse" colors, so that a light site becomes black and a black one becomes light. It is useful for changing colors of sites to "Dark Theme" or "Dark Reader" view while preserving (most of) images' colors. In case a webpage does not have its background color reversed, enabling "Force max opacity" will force a reversal of the background color.
The "Invert Image Colors" option, which appears when "Force Reverse Colors" is enabled, causes images and videos colors to be inverted, so due to double inversion images and videos become normal. If it is disabled, the images and videos are not doubly inverted in color, causing them to look "reverse color".
Reverse color hue correction changes colors to match original website in reverse colors.
The text brightness and contrast can be changed by the sliders when "Reverse colors" is enabled. To revert to original brightness and contrast, set Strength to 0 and Contrast to 50.
The popup options show the "Lightness" value of current site. If less than 0.5, then it is "Dark themed", if more than 0.5, it is "Light themed". Dark themed sites can be changed by "Dark mode" while "Light themed" sites can be changed through "Reverse Colors". Some few sites may detect wrong theme, in which case enable BOTH Dark mode and Reverse colors to force site color changes.
The menu and large sections of site are increased in size according to the Font Increase % and Input elements increased by Font Threshold. If there are problems in display of menus / header imaages or large tables overlap, enable "Skip NAV & SECTION" checkbox. The "Skip NAV & SECTION" also skips applying Reverse Color to images inside NAV and HEADER elements, which are (usually) on top menu of website, when "Force Reverse colors" is enabled.
"Skip text height changes" will not change heights of text, and INPUT elements like text and select boxes, as well as unset line heights of changed text sizes.
Enabling "Apply custom CSS for site" will allow you to enter custom CSS rules for the site
Additional features are input box borders, underlining of links, forcing maximum opacity of transparent elements and saving/loading of settings whitelists/blacklists,
VERY IMPORTANT WARNING: If you are COPY+PASTE-ing from a page which has been changed by this plugin, DISABLE the plugin for that site and THEN copy + paste. If you are editing or submitting HTML content online using a content management system like Wordpress or having an HTML Editor, DISABLE this extension for that particular site. Otherwise, the HTML will contain unwanted styling elements generated by the extension.
WHEM PRINTING A PAGE modified by this extension, KEEP "Disable for this site" enabled otherwise the PRINTING WON'T BE CORRECT.
SUGGESTIONS OR ISSUES
If you have any bugs other than known "can't fix", or suggestions, post them on https://codeberg.org/sameerw/btv/
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
