WebAble
The extension

The web, adapted to you.

43 tools across vision, reading, motor, cognitive, and the everyday annoyances, plus read aloud and a guide that points at the control you need next. Press Ctrl+Shift+U (⌘+Shift+U on a Mac) to open the panel on any page. Every tool here is free for individuals, with no account. The AI tools additionally need either your own Google Gemini key or a subscription, because somebody has to pay the model.

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Reader mode rebuilds the article on the page you already have open. No reload, no second request, nothing sent anywhere.

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Scientists discover ancient Roman shipwreck off the coast of Sicily

By Jane Doe · Nov 12 · 4 min read · Filed under: History, Science

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The wreck, discovered at a depth of 80 metres by a team from the University of Palermo, dates to approximately 200 BCE and contains amphorae still sealed with their original contents. Initial analysis suggests the cargo included olive oil, wine, and garum.

"This is one of the most significant finds in Mediterranean archaeology in the last decade," said lead archaeologist Prof. Marco Russo.

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A typical article page: ads, banners, sidebar, related content.

Vision

8 tools

For low vision, color vision differences, and anyone who needs the page to look different.

  • Dark mode

    Turns a light site dark with tuned colors rather than a blanket invert, so photos and logos survive.

  • High contrast

    Pushes contrast until faint grey-on-white body text becomes readable. Three strengths.

  • Color blindness filter

    Deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia presets, applied as a CSS filter matrix. No reload.

  • Text size

    Scales text in steps without scaling the browser UI. The layout reflows; nothing is clipped.

  • Invert / dark

    A plain photographic negative for sites dark mode cannot reach. Images are flipped back the right way.

  • Saturation

    Full grayscale, or dial color intensity up and down for sensory comfort.

  • Custom colors

    Pick your own text, heading, and background colors when none of the presets is the one you need.

  • Magnifier

    A lens that follows your pointer and enlarges whatever is under it, without zooming the page.

Reading

11 tools

For dyslexia, focus, and anyone who reads better with a different shape.

  • Reader mode

    Extracts the article and reformats it into a clean, centered column. Runs on the page you already loaded.

  • Dyslexia font

    OpenDyslexic, Lexend, or Atkinson Hyperlegible across body text, headings, inputs, and buttons.

  • Readable font

    Replaces every typeface on the page with one clean, legible sans-serif.

  • Bionic reading

    Bolds the opening letters of each word so your eye has a fixed point to land on.

  • Text spacing

    Line height, letter spacing, and word spacing move independently, so you can loosen only what is tight.

  • Text alignment

    Forces one consistent alignment on body text, including away from justified.

  • Highlight links

    Underlines and outlines every link so they stop hiding inside sentences.

  • Highlight titles

    Boxes and labels each heading with its level, so the page outline becomes visible.

  • Reading guide

    A ruler line that tracks your cursor to hold your place in a paragraph.

  • Reading mask

    Dims the page except a band that follows your cursor.

  • Focus mode

    Dims everything except the paragraph you are reading, and follows you down the page. Reading position, not cursor position, so it works without a mouse.

Motor

7 tools

For trembling hands, reduced fine motor control, and anyone who needs bigger targets.

  • Bigger click targets

    Pads buttons, links, and inputs out to a comfortable minimum tap size. They stay where they look.

  • Big cursor

    A large, high-contrast pointer that is easy to keep track of.

  • Visible focus

    Forces a high-contrast ring on whatever has keyboard focus, on sites that removed theirs.

  • Auto-scroll

    Scrolls the page slowly and hands-free at a speed you set. Moving the mouse pauses it.

  • Force zoom

    Re-enables pinch-to-zoom on sites that disabled it in their viewport tag.

  • Pin tooltips

    Hover or tab to anything with a tooltip and it stays open until you dismiss it, instead of vanishing the moment your hand moves.

  • Unpin sticky bars

    Unpins headers that follow you down the page, and hides floating chat bubbles.

Cognitive

6 tools

For ADHD, sensory sensitivity, and anyone who needs the noise turned down.

  • Hide distractions

    Collapses ads, related-content sidebars, and newsletter clutter, by common markup patterns.

  • Stop animations

    Freezes CSS animation and transitions, and stops autoplaying video.

  • Hide images

    Blanks images and background art for focus or low bandwidth. Text stays intact.

  • Mute media

    Silences audio and video, and stops autoplay from un-muting itself.

  • Feed off (stop the scroll)

    Hides the infinite feed on YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Search and subscriptions still work.

  • Mute notification nags

    Hides "turn on alerts" bars, and answers browser notification prompts as no before they interrupt you.

Annoyance killers

8 tools

For everyone tired of the modern web.

  • Cookie banners

    Finds the consent banner and hides it. Clicking reject for you is a separate switch, off by default, because a consent choice is yours to make.

  • Dismiss popups

    Hides newsletter and promo overlays and gives you the scrollbar back.

  • Break sign-up walls

    Peels off "sign up to keep reading" overlays and un-blurs the article underneath.

  • Expand all

    Opens the show-more and FAQ blocks inside the article, once, when you switch it on. It stays out of navigation, forms, and checkout.

  • Unlock selection

    Re-enables selecting text everywhere, and defeats most copy and right-click blockers. Editors and form fields keep their own behaviour, so Docs still works.

  • Media speed

    Sets playback speed for every video and audio element on the page.

  • Volume boost

    Makes quiet video louder and tames spikes, without touching system volume. Media the browser will not let it process safely is left alone rather than silenced.

  • Picture-in-picture

    Pops the page video into a floating, always-on-top window.

AI reading aids

3 tools

Three tools that call a model, with your own Gemini key. Off until you turn them on, and each one tells you what it sends.

  • Highlight to explain

    Needs a key

    Select text for a bubble that explains, simplifies, or translates it. Define and Speak in the same bubble need no key.

  • Double-click dictionary

    Double-click a word for a definition and a button to hear it. Uses the free dictionaryapi.dev, no key and no model.

  • TL;DR this page

    Needs a key

    Pins a short summary above the article. Turning it on sends the article text to Google’s Gemini API.

And 7 that are not toggles

7 tools
  • Read aloud

    Reads the selection, or finds the article text when nothing is selected. Web Speech API, so the audio is synthesised by your browser and no text leaves the device.

  • Guide

    Needs a key

    Type or speak what you are trying to do and it answers as ordered steps, pointing a cursor at the exact control to use next. Grounded in the page’s own elements, so the pointer tracks scroll and reflow. Needs a Gemini key.

  • Fix this site

    Point at anything that gets in your way and hide, collapse, widen, or restyle it. The fix is CSS and DOM only, saved for that site, and re-applied next visit.

  • Clean copy

    Copies selected text without the tracking parameters, invisible characters, and "read more at" tails sites append to your clipboard.

  • Ask this page

    Needs a key

    Type a question about the page you are on and get the answer in the panel. It reads the article text to answer; it does not scroll the page or highlight anything for you. Needs a Gemini key.

  • Read the text in images

    Needs a key

    Pulls the words out of screenshots, infographics, and image-only documents, up to four at a time. Needs a Gemini key.

  • Describe images

    Needs a key

    One button writes alt text for the images on the page that have none, up to six at a time, using the page title as context. Images the browser will not let it read are skipped. Needs a Gemini key.

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tools in the panel

6

categories

6

need an AI key

free for individuals

What leaves your device

The exact answer, not the comfortable one.

Most of this extension never talks to a server. The AI tools do, because they cannot work otherwise, and this is what they send and to whom. There is no analytics and no telemetry: we never collect usage data, and nothing is sent to us for any purpose other than answering the request you just made. An account is optional and exists for one reason, which is that the AI tools otherwise require you to obtain a Google Cloud API key yourself. Bring your own key and the AI still works and still never touches our servers.

Never leaves your browser

  • Everything under Vision, Reading, Motor, Cognitive, and Annoyance killers. They are CSS and DOM changes made in your browser.
  • Read aloud. Your browser synthesises the speech with the Web Speech API.
  • Your per-site tool settings, your "fix this site" rules, and your friction notes, including any screenshot you attach. They are saved on this machine and go nowhere.

Follows your Chrome profile

  • The panel theme and your chosen read-aloud voice, through Chrome sync, so they follow your signed-in profile. Nothing about which sites you visit goes with them.

Leaves your browser, when you use these tools

  • Google (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)

    Sends: The text you selected, or the article text, or the images being described or read, or a numbered list of the page’s elements for Guide. The page title and URL go with a summary, a question, or a Guide answer so the answer makes sense.

    When: Only when you use Highlight to explain, TL;DR this page, Ask this page, Describe images, Read the text in images, or Guide, AND you are using your own Gemini key rather than a subscription. With your own key the request goes straight from your browser to Google, and Google’s terms for that key apply to you.

  • WebAble (api.webable.cc)

    Sends: Exactly the same content as the row above: the selection, the article text, the image, or the numbered element list, plus the page title and URL where they are needed. It is passed straight through to Google and the answer is passed back.

    When: Only when you use one of those AI tools AND you are signed in to a subscription instead of using your own key. This is the whole difference a subscription buys: we hold the Google key so you do not have to.

  • Google speech (through your browser)

    Sends: The audio recorded while you hold the Guide’s microphone button. Chrome’s built-in speech recognition transcribes it on Google’s servers, and asks the site you are on for microphone permission.

    When: Only while you are pressing that button. Typing your question instead sends no audio.

  • api.dictionaryapi.dev

    Sends: The single word you double-clicked, or the first word of your selection. Nothing else, no page URL, no identifier.

    When: When Double-click dictionary or the Define button is used. No key and no account.

  • Whatever host serves an image on the page

    Sends: A fresh request for that image file, so it can be read and sent on to Google. No page URL, no identifier; the site is already serving that image to you.

    When: When Describe images or Read the text in images runs.

And what is kept

  • Our database

    A count of how many AI requests you made today, and which kind the last one was. Verified in the code: no request body, no page text and no URL is written to any table.

  • Our logs

    Nothing from the request body. The server logs errors, not content. If Google returns an error, Google’s error message is logged, and we cannot rule out that such a message quotes a fragment of what was sent.

  • Google

    Not ours to promise. Their retention depends on the terms that apply to the key in use, and with a subscription that is our key rather than yours. We have not published a specific claim about it because we have not verified one.

Your Gemini key is stored on the device you typed it on and is never synced, so it does not follow your Chrome profile to your other machines. That means pasting it again on each machine you use. Anyone with access to your computer can read it, as with any key held in a browser, so on a shared machine use a hosted proxy or skip the AI tools entirely.

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