Features

Fonts, spacing, colors, overlays, rulers, read aloud, writing help and video controls: everything that changes how a page reads and how you work on it.

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AI Features for Learning

Learn how to use Helperbird's AI-powered features to access curriculum content, demonstrate learning, and support rea...

Auto Scroll

Learn how to use Helperbird's Auto Scroll feature to automatically scroll through web pages at your preferred speed. ...

Background Color

Learn how to use Helperbird's change background color. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading sup...

Colors Panel

Learn what the three settings in the Helperbird Colors panel do, and how to set your own text, link and background co...

Cursor Size

Learn how to change cursor size in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge with Helperbird for better visibility Support for all lea...

Dark Mode

Learn how to use Helperbird's turn on dark mode in helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and rea...

Display

The Display panel holds five tools that make a page easier to see: High contrast, Highlight links, Saturation, Cursor...

Dyslexia Ruler

Set up the Dyslexia ruler in Helperbird. Park a colored bar on the page or set it to follow your mouse, and change it...

Font Color

Learn how to change the color of text on any website using Helperbird. Choose a text color that is easier for you to ...

Fonts

Learn how to change the font on any website using Helperbird. Choose from dyslexia-friendly fonts like OpenDyslexic, ...

Dyslexia Fonts

Helperbird has 32 fonts, including OpenDyslexic, six Lexend widths, Andika and Atkinson Hyperlegible. See which to tr...

Grammar Checker

Helperbird's Grammar Checker corrects grammar, spelling and punctuation across a whole passage. Learn how to use it, ...

High Contrast

High contrast recolors any web page so text stands out. Compare the five themes, find the one that suits your eyes, a...

Highlight Links

Learn how to make links more visible on any website using Helperbird. Highlight links with underlines and styling to ...

Highlighter

Select text on any website and mark it in one of six colors. Your highlights are saved, come back on your next visit,...

Hiding Your Highlights

Learn how to switch your saved Helperbird highlights out of view and back again, so you can read a clean page without...

Highlight color

Choose a color from Helperbird’s Highlighter palette to mark selected text. Turn Highlighter on or off to show or hid...

Images and GIFs

Learn how to hide images and animated GIFs on any website using Helperbird. Removing images can help you focus on tex...

Immersive Reader

Learn how to use immersive reader on any website. Text-to-speech and reading tools for accessibility Support accessib...

Grammar Options

Learn how to split words into syllables and color the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in Immersive Reader, so di...

Opening Immersive Reader

Learn how to send a page, or just the text you selected, into Immersive Reader straight from Helperbird's floating to...

Reading Preferences

Learn how to use Line Focus and the Picture Dictionary in Immersive Reader, so you can keep your place and see what a...

Text and Style

Learn how to change the text size, spacing, font and background color in Immersive Reader, so the page is comfortable...

Translating

Learn how to translate a page in Immersive Reader, either the whole document or one word at a time, so you can read i...

Letter Spacing

Learn how to use Helperbird's change letter spacing. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading support.

Line Focus

Learn how to use line focus on any website. Highlight one line at a time for better reading. Support accessibility fo...

Line Height

Learn how to adjust line height on any website for better reading comfort and accessibility Support for all learners ...

Link Color

Learn how to change the color of links on any website using Helperbird. Make links stand out more or choose colors th...

Magnifier

Learn how to use Helperbird's zoom in and magnify any website. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and rea...

Media Controls

Media controls is the Helperbird panel for video. It holds two settings, Playback speed and Video volume. Learn what ...

Overlay & Tints

Add a color overlay or tint to any website with Helperbird. Pick a color, set the strength, and use Blend mode to cut...

Blend Mode

Learn what the Blend mode toggle in Helperbird's color overlay does, when to keep it on, and when to turn it off so y...

Paragraph Background Color

Learn how to use Helperbird to add a background color to paragraphs on any website. Make text easier to read by highl...

Paragraph Borders

Helperbird can draw a colored outline around every paragraph, so you can see where each one starts and ends. Here is ...

Paragraph Features

Learn what the Border, Background and Width controls in Helperbird's Paragraphs panel do, and which one to try first ...

Paragraph Width

Learn how to use Helperbird's adjust paragraph width. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading supp...

Reading Guide

Follow text with a colored reading guide in Helperbird. Adjust its height, width, color and opacity, and keep your pl...

Turning On the Reading Guide

Learn how to switch on Helperbird's reading guide from the floating toolbar, so a bar follows your place down the pag...

Reading Mode

Learn how to use Helperbird's Reading Mode to create a clean, distraction-free reading experience. Reading Mode remov...

Opening Reading Mode

Learn how to strip a cluttered web page back to just the article with Reading Mode, straight from Helperbird's floati...

Reduce Motion

Learn how to stop animations on any website. Disable moving content for better focus and accessibility Support access...

Saturation

Learn how to use Helperbird's adjust color saturation. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading sup...

Screenshot Reader

Learn how Helperbird's Screenshot Reader pulls text and equations out of any image, screenshot, or scanned page, then...

Equations in a Screenshot

Learn how the Helperbird Screenshot Reader picks up maths from a picture automatically, with no mode to choose, and w...

Explain Mode

Learn how to turn on Explain mode so Helperbird explains a chart, diagram or paragraph in plain language instead of j...

Math Reader Is Now Automatic

The Math Reader is no longer a mode you pick. Helperbird's Screenshot Reader now reads equations automatically, in th...

Screenshot Tool

Learn how to use Helperbird's take a screenshot with helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and r...

Show Descriptions

Learn how to use Helperbird's show link and image descriptions. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and re...

Simplify Text

Learn how to use Helperbird to simplify complex text into plain, easy-to-understand language. A complete guide to the...

Spell Check

Learn how to turn on your browser's spell checker for every text box on a page with Helperbird, from the Quick action...

Sticky Notes

Add a sticky note to a web page with Helperbird, write a title and reminder, choose its color, and find it again when...

Sticky Notes on Desktop

Learn how to keep Helperbird sticky notes accessible from your desktop on Windows, macOS, and Chromebooks. Tips for u...

Summarize Text

Learn how to use Helperbird to summarize long articles, web pages, and text into short, easy-to-read summaries. A com...

Text Alignment

Learn how to use Helperbird's change text alignment. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading support.

Text Settings

Learn what each control in Helperbird's Text settings panel does, and which one to change first. Spacing helps more r...

Text to Speech

Learn how to use Helperbird's Text to Speech feature to have any text read aloud. Listen to articles, emails, documen...

Highlighting Words

Learn how to turn on word highlighting in Helperbird, so each word lights up as it is spoken and your eye can follow ...

Reading a Page Aloud

Learn how to use the Play and Stop buttons on Helperbird's floating toolbar to have a web page, or just the part you ...

Rewind and Skip

Theater mode is no longer available in Helperbird. Replay selected text with the current read-aloud controls, or find...

Text to Speech in Word Online

Learn how to use Helperbird's Text to Speech feature in Microsoft Word Online. Have your documents read aloud while y...

Translate

Translate a webpage or selected passage with Helperbird. Choose a language, press Translate, and learn how free, Pro ...

Video Playback Speed

Speed up or slow down videos with Helperbird. Learn how to choose a pace from 0.1x to 2x on YouTube, Vimeo and other ...

Video Volume

Learn how to mute every video on a web page at once with Helperbird, or set them all to a quieter level, without usin...

Voice Typing

Learn how to use Helperbird's use voice typing (speech to text). Complete guide for improving web accessibility and r...

Chemistry & Physics Voice Typing

Learn how to dictate chemistry formulas and physics notation with Helperbird's voice typing modes. Say it out loud an...

Dictating into the Page

Learn how to make Helperbird's voice typing put your words directly into the box you are typing in, including Google ...

Math Mode (Speech to Math)

Learn how to turn on Math Mode in Helperbird's voice typing and dictate equations out loud. Say 'x squared plus y squ...

Volume Booster

Learn how to use Helperbird's Volume Booster to control the volume of every video on any website with one simple slider.

Word Prediction

Learn how to use Helperbird's Word Prediction feature to get word suggestions as you type. Word prediction helps you ...

Clearing Learned Words

Learn how to reset the words Helperbird's word prediction has learned from your writing, when it starts suggesting yo...

Hearing Your Writing

Learn how to turn on Read sentence in Helperbird, so each sentence is read back to you as soon as you finish it and y...

Topic Dictionaries

Learn how to use topic dictionaries in Helperbird's word prediction, so subject words for Science, History, Space, or...

Turning On Word Prediction

Learn how to switch on Helperbird's word prediction from the floating toolbar, so suggestions appear as you type into...

Word Prediction Layout

Show Helperbird's word suggestions across a row or stacked in a vertical list. Choose a layout and keep your usual pr...

Word Spacing

Learn how to increase the space between words on any website using Helperbird. Word spacing makes text easier to read...

Word Spotlight

Word spotlight colors the word your mouse pointer is on. What it does, and how to switch it on from the Helperbird menu.

Where Word Spotlight Works

Where Word spotlight works, what it will not highlight, what a screen reader hears, and how it differs from the other...

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