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Het kleurenschema van de webpagina's wijzigen om omkeren zodat ze beter leesbaar zijn.
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High Contrast lets you browse the web with your choice of several high-contrast color filters designed to make it easier to read text.
When you install this 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 your browse.
Other extensions try to change the default colors, but this ends up breaking many popular websites. Only this extension applies filters to your page that invert almost everything - the only exception is photos, which are left alone.
Also note that the Chrome web store and other built-in pages like the New Tab page and Settings pages are unaffected - extensions like this one are not allowed to modify them, by design.
Latest reviews
- (2025-05-19) FE Sports: Simply one of the MOST USEFUL extensions I've ever used ... sigh ... HATE GREY TEXT on websites.
- (2025-04-19) Google User: It's been abandoned. Developer sites a fake email address. I don't trust the MV3 new versions by unknowns. Many Chrome extensions with few downloads are in fact malicious or counterift and Google is doing nothing even though you report them. One bug I noticed with the original High Contrast extension is that for specific websites it uses that as the default setting even though there is a per website customization option. Shift F12 doesn't work.
- (2025-03-31) Adolix Software: The High Contrast extension seems abandoned, so we ported it to Manifest V3, added better UI, and made it available on all major browsers. Link for Chrome users: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/high-contrast-eye-protect/eibmamgcpamdfpfdlcmmjiofgladcadk
- (2025-03-23) Game Top: There is a new version (V3) of this up for anyone that can't access it! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/high-contrast-v3/feifjeidnhmidmfiplikffpkgkmjlmbl
- (2025-03-06) N G: MESSAGE TO DEVELOPER: PLEASE UPGRADE THIS EXTENSION SINCE ITS NO LONGER SUPPORTED AND I NEEEEEEEED THIS FOR MY POOR VISION. I WILL GLADLY EVEN PAY $5 FOR IT. I AM STRUGGLING TRYING TO WORK WITHOUT IT :(
- (2025-03-03) I will defeat my friend Jake!: NO LONGER SUPPORTED
- (2025-01-05) MC Wong: it's no longer available to install on Chrome!!! and was removed/disabled automatically. Reason: This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions. Please update the extension ASAP to be compatible with Chrome best practice!!
- (2025-01-05) MC Wong: it's no longer available to install on Chrome!!! and was removed/disabled automatically. Reason: This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions. Please update the extension ASAP to be compatible with Chrome best practice!!
- (2024-09-26) Malachi Swartz (Ammo): i have both poor vision and photosensitive epilepsy, this extension and the ability to toggle is AMAZING especially because you can set it to not do its thing on certain websites. i messed with my computer settings for hours and nothing proved to be as useful as this extension in making me able to *see* without causing issues with my photosensitivity. in fact i can even use it to help my photosensitivity due to the greyscale features. honestly the only good accessibility extension i have seen and tried out.
- (2024-08-05) Sunny Wu: Looks like Google is discontinuing this. Disabled people probably no longer matter to the company all because of Manifest v3 to get rid of adblockers.
- (2024-08-05) Sunny Wu: Looks like Google is discontinuing this. Disabled people probably no longer matter to the company all because of Manifest v3 to get rid of adblockers.
- (2024-07-31) Victor Boogers: I like the Increased Contrast a lot, but it can make text unreadable on sites with small text. Google search looks awesome with this setting (if you zoom in). Zooming in solves the issue, but I don't want to always zoom in of course. Also I tried Yellow on Black and it turns out Black on Yellow.
- (2024-07-08) Pierre Chazal: (com mis à jour le 08/07/2024) Elle était bien (seulement pour les navigateurs Chromium). Elle n'est pas passée à Manifest V3 et va être supprimée, dommage. Vous n'avez pas voulu ou pas pu la mettre à jour ?
- (2024-06-26) Daniel Essin: This otherwise great app has one problem. Enabling High Contrast changes the colors on the page, not just bolding the text. Amazon's yellow buttons become orange.
- (2024-06-25) Eric Scoles: Revisiting review as of 6/25/2024: All sites STILL default to 'inverted' color. This clear & very bad bug STILL has not been addressed. The default cannot be changed. For the time being that makes this almost worse than useless. DO NOT INSTALL if the last updated date in the Details section on the plugin home screen is earlier than MAY 23, 2024.
- (2024-05-24) Don Buelke: Resolved! After further twiddling, I found a switch at the the 3-dots on the taskbar to open the menu to customize Chrome>Extensions>Manage Extension>select the High Contrast one>click on Details and find the switch to turn on Pin To Task Bar. There are numerous other switches there to play with, too, but they seem to be set to a favorable default and I left them alone. The extension now worked on Gmail, Google search screens and web pages, but it doesn't work on this or other primary Chrome sites such as you home screen. ***Original post*** I've used this extension for several years and it is a little quirky at time. It seems after an update of Chrome or sometimes simply closing the program it loses its memory and takes several days before it will respond. However, as of May 22, it lost all access. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, and the icon appeared on the taskbar at the end of the process while an instructional overlay was hanging there, but as soon as I clicked on the icon as instructed everything disappeared and neither Shft+11 or +12 produced any access or result.
- (2024-05-24) Heather Ramsden: Such a useful add on for me as a neurodivergent person. Thank you to the developer for working on a quick fix.
- (2024-05-23) Yevgeniy Rudoy: Typically works well, but though the description is wrong when it says "the only exception is photos, which are left alone". It inverts images too.
- (2024-05-23) Dan Mozes: THIS IS A LIFESAVER FOR ME AS A VISUALLY IMPAIED PERSON I CAN HARDLY READ "NORMAL" PAGES I HABEEN USING THIS EXTENTION FOR SEVERL YEARS AND IT IS A PURE JOY IT STOPPED WORKING FOR THE LAST 24 HOURS AND MY COMPUTER WAS PRACTILY USELESS LUCKILY ONE OF THE LAST REVIEWERS EXPLAIIED THE REMOVAL AND RE-INSTALALTION OF THE PROGRAM AND THR PROBLEM FIXED THANK YOU
- (2024-05-23) fakenham: Stopped working yesterday, but appears to be OK once replaced with latest version.
- (2024-05-23) M Smith (msmithukulele): LOVED this extension until it stopped working yesterday. Please fix!
- (2024-05-23) tom b: I have had this extension for years with no problem.On May 23rd,2024 it is not working anymore.Please fix @Google or have a option.Thanks.
- (2024-05-23) Peter Mee: As of May 2024 the extension stopped working. Ayyone have a fix?
- (2024-05-23) PJ’s Garage (JP): I use this to help me see the screen better, otherwise it looks all washed out. Never had an issue with this extension until this morning when it stopped working. None of the settings are working, and I see that numerous people are having the same issue. Please fix this issue.
- (2024-05-23) Carrie Mendoza: I see that this extension stopped working for everyone, including me, as of yesterday. I turned on my computer this morning and it apparently did some update overnight and was showing my screen as "inverted" color but I then rebooted my computer and now it shows all my scrrens as normal contrast. However, for some screens I use, I always preferred them in "Increased Contrast" mode because it was easier on my eyes. I loved that this extension allowed you to change the setting for each individual tab you use (some normal contrast/ some high contrast). Now it does not work at all. PLEASE fix this extension for Windows 10 and 11!
- (2024-05-23) SHANNON ROHLFING: This used to be an awesome extension but it stopped working yesterday. Please fix!
- (2024-05-23) Tani Murphy: I've used this for years but it stopped working today. Hoping it can be fixed because it's a wonderful extension. I'm going to have to find an alternative for now.
- (2024-05-23) Elli Kr: worked great for many years, but today... What's happened? it stopped working :(
- (2024-05-23) Google User (M. B.): Malware! I was duped. This extension was just updated to 0.9.4 and it's supposedly an official Google extension, it's not.
- (2024-05-23) Ricardo Lima: ERA MUITO BOA, MAS DEPOIS DA ULTIMA ATUALIZAÇÃO, TENHO QUE REMOVER E INSTALAR NOVAMENTE TODA VEZ QUE SAIO DO CROME, JA NO EDGE ESTÁ 100%
- (2024-05-23) Dan: When it works it's great. Problem is that it stops working about once a week and has to be reset. Not so big of a problem if you aren't already visually impaired, but I am, so it's annoying as heck. I don't know why this happens, perhaps there are minor updates to Chrome that cause it to stop working. As of today however, it won't reset and appearts to have stopped working altogether. I can not do without it and will hae to find an alternative.
- (2024-03-02) Tim Hespe: Great so far. Use it for a site with very difficult to find input fields. Works a treat. Like that you can customise per site.
- (2024-02-26) Александр Клюшников: Thank you , my old display is not so bad with this extension
- (2024-01-18) Ronen Shouker: The "Normal" view causes many discourse based forum to look incorrectly when in dark mode, when High Contrant in Normal color scheme, which should not change anything.
- (2023-12-17) Chanaka Uditha Sandaruwan: Thank you for this great tool
- (2023-11-24) الإضافة تجعل تشغيل مقاطع فيديو يوتيوب بها تقطع أثناء التشغيل كما تجعل اليوتيوب بطيء بشكل عام.
- (2023-09-15) Enrique VL: I love the extension but there's an issue when viewing GitHub's directory structure. The text gets blurred and duplicated. I just reported about it using Google Chrome.
- (2023-09-15) Enrique VL: I love the extension but there's an issue when viewing GitHub's directory structure. The text gets blurred and duplicated. I just reported about it using Google Chrome.
- (2023-08-25) Barbara Miranda de Castro: Otimo para a leitura mais as imagens fica alteradas
- (2023-07-24) Fabio Cecchinato: molto utile, purtroppo non funziona più con Google Drive e la versione 115 di Fogli Google. Va aggiornata.
- (2023-07-24) Ed Anderson: One star because this caused a waste of my time figuring out what broke in Chrome on my recently migrated M2 Mac. Large pages will sometimes flicker into existence for a moment, then go blank. Smaller pages will blank out when scrolling down the page, then become visible again when scrolling back up. Large pages work fine in incognito mode, hinting at an extension. Trying to avoid disabling them one by one, I restarted Chrome from the command line: open -a "Google Chrome" --args --disable-extensions All pages working confirmed it's an extension. Process of elimination fingered this High Contrast extension alone. Now I see it has been reported broken for days with no response from the dev. Removing it entirely!
- (2023-07-24) Ed Anderson: One star because this caused a waste of my time figuring out what broke in Chrome on my recently migrated M2 Mac. Large pages will sometimes flicker into existence for a moment, then go blank. Smaller pages will blank out when scrolling down the page, then become visible again when scrolling back up. Large pages work fine in incognito mode, hinting at an extension. Trying to avoid disabling them one by one, I restarted Chrome from the command line: open -a "Google Chrome" --args --disable-extensions All pages working confirmed it's an extension. Process of elimination fingered this High Contrast extension alone. Now I see it has been reported broken for days with no response from the dev. Removing it entirely!
- (2023-07-24) 横山貴史: 大変便利な機能のアドオンであり、大変お世話になっております。 なお、Google Chromeの最新バージョン:115.0.5790.102を利用されていて、「ハイコントラスト」を利用している場合に、Chromeのバージョンとの兼ね合いで、特定ページ(食べログサイトなど)で画面が真っ白なページで必ず表示される動作が確認されております。症状をご確認の上、ご対応いただけると幸いです。
- (2023-07-23) Tad: 2023/07/23 Since the recent update of Chrome this extension keeps pages from loading. It appears that a page finishes loading and then go completely blank (all white). Disabling this extension is the only way to see the pages.
- (2023-07-23) Tad: 2023/07/23 Since the recent update of Chrome this extension keeps pages from loading. It appears that a page finishes loading and then go completely blank (all white). Disabling this extension is the only way to see the pages.
- (2023-07-23) Karen Tashi: WOULD BE NICE IF THE DEVELOPERS GAVE AN UPDATE AS TO WHEN THIS WILL BE FIXED. This little white screen issue cost me $100 to have my computer person remote in to figure out where this problem was originating from. I've been using this extension for years.
- (2023-07-23) Karen Tashi: WOULD BE NICE IF THE DEVELOPERS GAVE AN UPDATE AS TO WHEN THIS WILL BE FIXED. This little white screen issue cost me $100 to have my computer person remote in to figure out where this problem was originating from. I've been using this extension for years.
- (2023-07-22) Mária Zakor: It worked well until the latest update. Since then it's a white on white screen...
- (2023-07-22) Mária Zakor: It worked well until the latest update. Since then it's a white on white screen...
- (2023-07-22) T T: Not bad, but latest version (0.9.3 w. Chrome 115) has some big problems: flickering screens and black screens.