Reading and accessibility
Dyslexia-friendly reading and color vision
Make dense text easier to read with extra spacing and a clearer font, or adjust a page’s colors so shades that look alike are easier to tell apart.
Commands
- Dyslexia-Friendly Reading
- A clearer font with more space between letters and lines
- Color Vision Assist...
- Adjust colors for red-, green- or blue-weak vision
Crowded text can be tiring to read, especially if you have dyslexia. And plenty of sites rely on reds and greens that look almost the same to many people. Vokto has a reading aid for each, and you turn them on only on the sites where you need them.
Search for dyslexia or colorblind to find them quickly.
Dyslexia-friendly reading
Dyslexia-Friendly Reading switches the page’s text to the Lexend font and adds more space between letters, words and lines. It also lines text up on the left and keeps lines to a comfortable length. The layout follows the British Dyslexia Association’s guidance on readable text, and the extra spacing does most of the work.
Icons and code on the page are left alone. The font comes with Vokto, so nothing is downloaded. A few sites block fonts they didn’t load themselves; there you still get the spacing.
Color Vision Assist
Choose Color Vision Assist…, then pick the type that matches your vision:
- Protanopia (red-weak)
- Deuteranopia (green-weak)
- Tritanopia (blue-weak)
Vokto shifts the page’s colors so shades that tend to blur together stand further apart. It works at a moderate strength. Most color vision differences are partial, and a stronger change would distort the page more than it helps.
To be clear about what it does: it can make colors easier to tell apart, but it doesn’t restore full color vision or show you the colors other people see. Try it on a site where colors give you trouble and see whether it helps you.
To switch it off, open Color Vision Assist… again and choose Turn Off. While it’s on, it takes priority over Dark Page, Sepia Mode and Monochrome.
Only on the sites you choose
Both aids are remembered per site. Turn one on and it comes back each time you visit that site, in all of its open tabs, while every other site stays untouched. That keeps the color filter away from photos and charts on sites where you don’t need it. A dot on the Vokto toolbar icon shows when one is on for the site you’re viewing.
To turn one off, run its command again, or use Active Page Changes… or Site Settings…, described in Reader view, dark page and more.