Feature Guides

Learn how to use every Helperbird feature with step-by-step guides. From text to speech and dyslexia fonts to reading mode and annotations - we've got you covered.

Sticky notes

Learn how to use Helperbird's add sticky notes to websites. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and readin...

Auto Scrolling

Learn how to use Helperbird's auto scroll on websites. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading sup...

Background Color

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

Columns

Learn how to use Helperbird's split text into columns on websites. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and...

Dyslexia Fonts

Learn how to change fonts to dyslexia-friendly options like OpenDyslexic on any website Support for all learners and ...

Dyslexia Ruler

Learn how to use Helperbird's use the dyslexia ruler. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading supp...

Fonts

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

Pause and Resume Helperbird

Learn how to use Helperbird's pause and resume helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and reading...

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 ...

Font Size

Learn how to increase or decrease the font size on any website using Helperbird. Make text larger for easier reading ...

Highlight color

Learn how to use Helperbird's highlighter to highlight text on any website and choose the highlight color that works ...

Highlighter

Learn how to highlight text on any website using Helperbird. Mark important information with different colors to help...

Paragraph Borders

Learn how to use Helperbird's add borders to paragraphs on websites. Complete guide for improving web accessibility a...

Highlight color

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

Link Color

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

Images and GIFs

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

Line Focus

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

Line Height

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

Letter Spacing

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

Video Controls

Learn how to control video playback speed on any website using Helperbird. Slow down videos to understand better or s...

Overlay & Tints

Learn how to use Helperbird's add a color overlay to any website. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and ...

Reading Guide

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

Spell Check

Learn how to use Helperbird's check grammar and spelling on websites. Complete guide for improving web accessibility ...

Text Alignment

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

Word Spacing

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

Magnifier

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

Cursor Size

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

Text Outline

Text Outline has been removed from Helperbird. Learn what happened and how to make text stand out with High Contrast,...

Text Analytics in Notepad

Learn how to use Helperbird's text analytics in the Notepad. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and readi...

Word Spotlight (Highlight on Hover)

Learn how to use Helperbird's Word spotlight to highlight words on hover. Complete guide for improving web accessibil...

Print

Helperbird's Print button was removed. Printing still works: press Ctrl+P or Cmd+P, and turn on Reading Mode first fo...

Search & Filter Features

Learn how to use Helperbird's search and filter features in helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibilit...

Reduce Motion

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

Screenshot Tool

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

Translate

Learn how to translate pages or text with Google Translate. Support multiple languages for accessibility Support acce...

Dark Mode

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

High Contrast

Learn how to use Helperbird's use helperbird's high contrast themes. Complete guide for improving web accessibility a...

Immersive Reader

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

Reading Mode

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

Voice Typing

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

Highlight Menu

Learn how to use Helperbird's use the highlight menu in helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibility an...

Math Reader

Learn how to use Helperbird's use math reader in helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and readi...

Quick Actions

Learn how to use Helperbird's use quick actions in helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibility and rea...

Speed Reading

Speed Reading has been removed from Helperbird. Learn what changed and how Reading Mode, Text to Speech, and the Focu...

Word Prediction

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

Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn about Helperbird keyboard shortcuts. Speed up your accessibility workflow with quick keys Support accessibility...

Saturation

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

Highlight Links

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

Link & Image Descriptions

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

Word Spotlight

Learn how to use word spotlight. Highlight individual words while reading for better focus Support accessibility for ...

Disable on Specific Websites

Learn how to use Helperbird's disable helperbird on specific websites. Complete guide for improving web accessibility...

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...

Video Playback Speed

Learn how to use Helperbird to speed up or slow down videos on any website. Control video playback speed from 0.1x to...

Simplify Text

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

Summarize Text

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

Supported Languages

Helperbird is translated into over 65 languages. Learn which languages are supported and how Helperbird automatically...

Grammar Checker

Learn how to use Helperbird's Grammar Checker to check and correct your grammar on any website. A complete guide to t...

Right-Click Context Menu

Learn how to access Helperbird features by right-clicking on any webpage. Use text-to-speech, translate, dictionary, ...

Helperbird During Locked Quizzes

Learn how to use Helperbird accessibility features during a Google Forms locked quiz. Turn on your features before st...

Accessibility Profiles

Learn how to apply a one-click accessibility profile in Helperbird, and exactly what each of the eight profiles chang...

Helperbird for ADHD and Focus

A guide to using Helperbird when you have ADHD or struggle with focus online. Learn how to reduce distractions, stay ...

Helperbird for Dyslexia

A complete guide to using Helperbird if you or someone you support has dyslexia. Covers dyslexia fonts, reading ruler...

Reading Long PDFs with Helperbird

A guide to working through a long PDF with Helperbird. Covers listening to a PDF, keeping your place, taking notes, d...

Writing Essays with Helperbird

Learn how to use Helperbird to write essays and assignments. Covers voice typing, word prediction, spelling and gramm...

Text to Speech in Google Slides

Learn how to use Helperbird to read Google Slides out loud with text to speech or Immersive Reader. Use the Extract T...

Save and Download PDFs

Learn how to save and download your annotated PDFs in Helperbird. All annotations including text boxes, drawings, and...

Share and Export PDFs

Learn how to download, save, and share annotated PDFs using Helperbird. Students can save their work locally or uploa...

AI Features for Learning

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

Offline Mode

Learn how Helperbird works offline without an internet connection. Most Helperbird features continue to work when you...

Why Immersive Reader Does Not Always Work

Learn why Immersive Reader sometimes does not load on certain websites like National Geographic, and what you can do ...

Sticky Notes on Desktop

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

Chemistry & Physics Voice Typing

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

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...

Voice & Language Settings

Learn how to change the voice, speed, and language for Text to Speech and Voice Typing in Helperbird. Choose from ove...

Microsoft 365 SSO

Learn how to set up Helperbird with Microsoft 365 SSO. Helperbird supports two authentication methods, subscription k...

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...

Floating Button

Learn how to turn on the floating Helperbird button, a small button on every website that opens the Helperbird access...

Accessibility Toolbar

Learn how to turn on and use the Helperbird accessibility toolbar, a floating bar of reading and writing tools that a...

Notes & Notebook

Learn how to use Helperbird's access and manage your notes in helperbird. Complete guide for improving web accessibil...

Manage Notes & Highlights

Learn how to create, edit, delete, search, and export your sticky notes and highlights using the Notes app in Helperb...

Translate PDFs

Learn how to translate a PDF into your language with Helperbird. Open any page or highlighted text in Immersive Reade...

PDF Annotations

Learn how to add text boxes and annotations to any PDF using Helperbird's PDF Reader. Write notes, format text, add c...

Extract Text (OCR)

Learn how to use Helperbird's Extract Text feature to pull text from images, screenshots, and scanned documents using...

PDF Drawing Tools

Learn how to draw on PDFs with Helperbird's pen, shape, arrow, and line tools. A step-by-step guide to marking up any...

PDF Reader

Learn how to open and read PDFs in Helperbird with built-in note-taking, annotations, voice typing, translation, and ...

Annotate and Export PDFs

A complete walkthrough of annotating a PDF in Helperbird. Add text boxes, draw, take notes, then export the finished ...

Managing Your Billing

Learn how to open your Helperbird billing portal to update your card, download invoices, or cancel. Also covers reche...

Equations in a Screenshot

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

Adding a Saved Note

Learn how to use My Notes in the Helperbird Notepad to search the notes and highlights you saved while reading, and d...

Text and Style

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

Grammar and Spelling

Learn how to check your writing with Helperbird. Paste up to 5000 characters into the Grammar checker and see every c...

Clearing Learned Words

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

Copying a Document

Learn how to duplicate a document in the Helperbird Notepad so you can edit a copy while keeping the original untouched.

Copying an Equation

Learn how to copy an equation out of Helperbird's Equation Editor as LaTeX, as MathML or as an image, and which forma...

Deleting a Document

Learn how to delete a document you no longer need from the Helperbird Notepad, and what to check before you do.

Dictating an Equation

Learn how to speak a maths equation into Helperbird's Equation Editor instead of typing it, and what the Listening an...

Saving as an Image

Learn how to save a maths equation from Helperbird as an image file, and when a picture is the right choice rather th...

Downloading Your Work

Learn how to download your Helperbird Notepad writing as a Word file, a Markdown file, a Google Doc or a plain text f...

Drawing with the Keyboard

Learn how to add, move, resize and delete shapes on a PDF in Helperbird using only the keyboard, without needing a mo...

Searching Your List

Learn how to search your Helperbird Reading list to find a saved page quickly once the list has grown too long to scan.

Similar and Opposite Words

Learn how to use the Similar words and Opposite words lists in the Helperbird Dictionary, and how clicking one looks ...

Hearing a Word Aloud

Learn how to use the speaker buttons in the Helperbird Dictionary to hear a word pronounced, or to hear an example se...

Hearing an Equation

Learn how to have Helperbird read a maths equation out loud, so you can check it says what you meant rather than tryi...

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...

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...

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 ...

Looking Up a Word

Learn how to select a word on any page and look up its meaning straight from Helperbird's floating toolbar, without l...

Looking Up a Word

Learn how to search for a word in the Helperbird Dictionary and read its definitions and example sentences, grouped b...

Reading Google Slides

Learn how to turn on the Helperbird beta setting that makes a view-only Google Slides deck readable, so fonts, rulers...

Text Boxes with the Keyboard

Learn how to position, resize and delete a text box on a PDF in Helperbird using only the keyboard, without dragging ...

Opening a Saved Page

Learn how to open a page you saved to your Helperbird Reading list, and how to read it with Helperbird's reading tool...

Opening a Saved Document

Learn how to find and reopen a document you saved earlier in the Helperbird Notepad using the View button.

Opening a Word on Wikipedia

Learn how to jump from a word in the Helperbird Dictionary to its Wikipedia page, for when a short definition is not ...

Opening Immersive Reader

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

Opening Reading Mode

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

Opening the Dictionary

Learn how to open the Helperbird Dictionary from the extension popup, so you can look up any word without leaving you...

Opening the Equation Editor

Learn how to open Helperbird's Equation Editor from the extension popup, so you can write, hear and copy maths equati...

Opening the Notepad

Learn how to open the Helperbird Notepad from the extension popup, so you have a distraction-free place to write in y...

Opening the PDF Reader

Learn how to open the Helperbird PDF Reader from the extension popup, and how to load a PDF from your computer so you...

Opening Your Reading List

Learn how to open the Helperbird Reading list from the extension popup to see every page you have saved to read later.

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 ...

Removing a Page

Learn how to remove a page from your Helperbird Reading list once you have finished with it, including how to find th...

Rewind and Skip

Learn how to turn on Theater mode in Helperbird so you can drag back to hear a sentence again, skip ahead, and see ho...

Saving Your Work

Learn how to save your writing in the Helperbird Notepad, where it is stored, and what to do if a long document will ...

Saving a Page

Learn how to save the web page you are reading to your Helperbird Reading list, so you can come back to it later.

Starting a New Document

Learn how to start a fresh document in the Helperbird Notepad without losing the one you were already working on.

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...

Turning On the Toolbar

Learn how to switch on Helperbird's floating toolbar so your reading and writing tools sit on every page, without ope...

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...

Turning On Word Prediction

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

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 ...

Beta Features

Learn how to turn on Helperbird beta features from the settings page. Try new features early, including word highligh...

Explain Mode

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

Grammar Options

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

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...

Recent Searches

Learn how the Helperbird Dictionary remembers the words you have looked up, how to return to one in a click, and how ...

The PDF Tools Menu

Learn how to reach Immersive Reader, Translate, Summarize and Screenshot Reader from inside the Helperbird PDF Reader...

Writing an Equation

Learn how to write a maths equation in Helperbird's Equation Editor, either by typing LaTeX or by using the on-screen...

Writing and Formatting

Learn how to write in the Helperbird Notepad and use the formatting toolbar for headings, bold, lists, colour, links ...

Opening Settings

Learn how to open the Helperbird settings page from the popup. The settings page is where you manage profiles, import...

Turning Helperbird On and Off

Learn how to switch Helperbird on and off from the popup. One switch turns every feature on or off at once, so you ca...

Dark Mode for the Menu

Learn how to switch the Helperbird menu itself to dark mode. This changes how Helperbird looks, and is separate from ...

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