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Helperbird 3.0 — An app for people with dyslexia and accessibility issues.
Helperbird is a browser extension featuring dyslexia-friendly fonts and rulers, as well as customizable font & background colors, overlays, text to speech, color blindness tools and more to make the web accessible for your needs!
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Patrick Long
This sounds great!
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@patrick_long thanks so much. If you have any questions I would love to answer them !
Hey, Product Hunt! ✌️
I'm a dyslexic software engineer who personally understands the challenges faced by many with online accessibility issues. As we reach the end of Dyslexia Awareness Month, I've decided to launch my passion project Helperbird 3.0.
It's been 7 months since the previous version of Helperbird was posted, and since then, I have entirely redesigned the app to make it faster and more user-friendly, plus we've grown to over 65,000 users! Along with dozens of tweaks and improvements to our previous features, I've added 7 new features and 3 brand new, robust apps within the extension (Notes, Dictionary, Speech to Text).
𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
• Convert the font on websites to use OpenDyslexic, Arial, and 14 more
• Change the font color
• Change the background color
• Color picker tool allowing selection of custom colors
• Zoom
• Colorblindness support: Emphasize Links & Stroke
• Overlay
• Hide Images
• Hide Gifs
• Dyslexia Ruler
• Text to Speech with 40+ natural voices with speed options
• Cognitive Load
• Dictionary App
• Notes App (save and sync notes across machines)
• Speech to Text App
• Blacklist (disable from running on individual sites)
• Google Translate any page
• Screenshot
• Sync settings across browsers
• Premium support
• Pdf support
• Google Docs support
• 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗔 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗣𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁
• Localization Compliance
• Easy to install and use
Special thanks to @CourtneyMakesVideo for creating the product video and all our how-to videos. ⭐ ⭐
I will be on Product Hunt and Twitter today. Comment below or contact me if you have any questions, comments, or cute pictures of your pets.
Robert James - 🍀
What does everyone think of the new features? Or if you have any questions I would love to answer them :)
Hello! I got an in depth look at the app while making the Helperbird videos. It’s such a flexible tool and Robert James has a great vision for making the web accessible for all! As an editor, I'm conscious of eye-strain and personally use Helperbird to change websites from being too “bright” with the Overlay feature.
@courtneymakesvideo Thank you for the kind words and I love what you did on the video to help spread our mission and goal!
@chrisreid thank you so much for the kind words. If you have any feedback I would love to hear about it !
Incredible and super important work @robertjgabriel - well done and congratulations on the launch of the new version! :)
@alxcnwy thank you so much ! The feedback so far has been amazing and I can’t wait to develop it more!
Both I and my daughter have issues with dyslexia for our whole lives. We have tended to keep away from the Web and Social Media because of this. Since finding and using helperbird our lives have transformed for the better. I now use the Web as normal without having to hide the fact that I was unable to see what was on the screen. I'm now in a position in my work place where I'm on an equal level with my fellow workers for the first time as my dyslexia is no longer an issue. Life for me has just become normal. Helperbird is a life changer!
@burt_martin Brilliant, if you have any feature requests or improvements do let me know!
Does this work with apple ipad? My grandson has one of those computers and is dyslexic so this might help him? Will this help him read?
@craig_haul Not just yet, but we are aiming to have the iPad version out in January of 2020. As we are a small team :)
Great app, from dictionary options to keeping personal notes, it is refreshingly inclusive, your IPad version due out in January next should prove very successful.
I have only just come across this product and as a Dyslexic QA in tech, it is what I need in my life! I am on my computer for at least 8 hours a day and literally just changing the font will increase my productivity in some way, Thank you for making a difference to peoples lives :-)