This extension automatically highlights the important content on articles and other pages. To use, click the highlighter icon in the location bar. Clicking multiple times changes the highlighting coverage. As the page receives more highlighting from clicking the icon, the icon will show less available ink in the highlighter.
Details on Auto HighlightClearly Reader – Your missing reader mode
Organization/Productivity, Screen Reading, Microsoft EdgeThis extension extracts text and removes links, ads or any other content. The “Reader View: neat and clean” allows students to change font style and size of writing, change the background theme, and listen to the text aloud. The extension would be most beneficial when reading a longer text or article.
Details on Clearly Reader – Your missing reader modeDark Reader
Organization/Productivity, Microsoft EdgeDark Reader is an extension that easily inverts the colours on a website. This includes the background, text colour, and other items but does not include photographs. It allows for users to add sites to a list that they want to invert, or don’t want to invert (for example, if a site already has a black background). It’s a simple extension with limited options outside of modifying contrast and brightness. The extension remains on when navigating the web. Upon testing, there does not appear to be any formatting issues or missing buttons.
Details on Dark ReaderPrintFriendly and PDF
Organization/Productivity, Microsoft EdgePrint Friendly and PDF takes an article or text and prepares it to be printable by removing any adds menus, or distractions. Pages are laid out perfectly to make it easy to print and read! The extension can also be helpful for users who don’t want to print the text.
Details on PrintFriendly and PDFSpeakIt! – Text to speech for Microsoft Edge
Screen Reading, Microsoft EdgeTired of reading? Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read. With this extension users can select the text they want to read and right click to listen to it. SpeakIt is simple to use with few options but works well and is free.
Details on SpeakIt! – Text to speech for Microsoft Edge