easyreading

This is a bionic reading extension for Chrome-based browsers.

User Guide

How to Install

This works on any Chrome-based browser (eg Chromium, Edge, Brave, Gener8).

1. Click on the green button 'Code' in the right corner
2. Download as zip
3. Un-zip in a folder
4. Go to extensions
5. Enable developer mode
6. Click Load-Unpacked
7. Select the whole folder with the files inside

Features

• Changing the bolded-font color to anything you wish.
• Changing the proportion of bolded letters in a word
• Saving the current settings on a particular domain (i.e blue on github, red on stack)
• Blacklisting domains

Contributor Guide

The extension uses both cloud & local storage. The data structure is as follows.

Cloud (sync) Storage

This has 3 properties:

• textColor - how to colorise the bold parts. Chosen via HTML5 colour picker input.
• proportion - the fraction of each word to bolden. Ranges from 0.1 to 0.9 in steps of 0.1.
• blacklist - an array of hostnames for the extension to ignore.

The first 2, textColor and proportion are default values. They may get overriden by the settings property in local storage.

Local Storage

This has 1 property, settings, which is an array of key-value pairs. The values are objects with textColor and proportion fields while the keys are website hostnames on which to apply the corresponding settings value.