Dino is a Chrome extension designed to help people with dyslexia and color blindness navigate and interact with web pages more easily.
To use Dino in your Chrome browser, follow these steps:
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Download the source code from this repository or click here to download it and then unzip the files.
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Open Google Chrome and click on the extensions icon
in the top-right corner of the browser. Alternatively, you can go to settings and then select extensions from the left tab. -
Toggle the Developer Mode button
on the top-right corner to enable it. -
Click on the load unpacked button
on the top-left corner and select the unzipped folder containing the folder named Dino-main. -
That's it! Now simply click on Dino from your extensions to run it.
Dino offers a number of features to enhance your web experience, including:
- PREFERENCES
- preference is a technical term usually used in relation to choosing between alternatives.
- FONT SIZE
- Change the font size of the web page using various sizes available, ranging from 12px to 60px.
- FONT STYLE
- Change the font style of the web page from the selected dyslexia-friendly fonts.
- Source: https://creativemarket.com/blog/best-fonts-for-dsylexia.
- IMAGES
- Remove images and read out alt texts of images.
- LISTEN TO WEB PAGE
- Read out the whole page or just the selected text.
- PARAGRAPHS
- Highlight paragraph border, highlight paragraph background.
- LINKS
- Highlight links present on the webpage and show borders to the links.
- COLORS
- Change background color and font color.
- DICTIONARY
- Get definition of the selected word on the webpage.
- TRANSLATION
- Enter the text to get translated.
- AUTO SCROLLING
- Where when you Enter to Start Scrolling and again press Enter to stop the Scrolling.
- MAGNIFIER
- Magnify/demagnify the current webpage.
- REMOVE EMPHASIS
- Remove all italicized text and underscore from the webpage.
- CASE CONVERTER
- Where you convert word into Uppercase and Lowercase.
Permissions include tabs and active tabs which helps to manipulate the styles of the web page. NO DATA IS USED BY US.
Diganta Kr Banik |
Kushal Mitra |
You can raise an issue to report a bug or to request a new feature. Before raising an issue, please make sure that the issue you are raising is not already present among the existing issues.
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Fork the repo.
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After forking, clone the repo to your local machine. To clone the repo to your local machine, run the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/Dino
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Add a remote upstream to the original repo. To add a remote upstream, run the following command in your terminal:
git remote add upstream https://github/devloper-diganta/Dino
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Create a new branch. To create a new branch, run the following command in your terminal:
git checkout -b <your-branch-name>
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Make changes in source code.
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Add your changes To add your changes, run the following command in your terminal:
git add <File1 changed> <File2 changed> ...
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Commit your changes. To commit your changes, run the following command in your terminal:
git commit -m "<your-commit-message>" -
Push your changes. To push your changes, run the following command in your terminal:
git push origin <your-branch-name>
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Create a PR.
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Open GitHub Desktop and log in to your GitHub account.
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Make sure you are on the "Current Repository" view. If not, go to "File" and select "Add Local Repository" to add your repository.
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In the "Current Repository" view, ensure you are on the branch that you want to submit a pull request for. If you're not on the correct branch, use the "Branch" menu to switch to the correct branch.
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Once you're on the correct branch, make your changes and commit them to the branch. You can do this by clicking the "+" button in the upper-left corner of the GitHub Desktop window, making your changes, and then entering a commit message.
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After you've made your changes and committed them, click the "Push origin" button in the top-right corner of the GitHub Desktop window. This will push your changes to the remote repository on GitHub.
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Now, go to the GitHub website, navigate to your fork of the repository, and you should see a button to "Compare & pull request" between your fork and the original repository, click on it.
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On the pull request page, you can review your changes and add any additional information, such as a title and a description, that you want to include with your pull request.
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Once you're satisfied with your pull request, click the "Create pull request" button to submit it.
Note: In order to create a pull request, you must have a fork of the original repository in your GitHub account and you must have made the changes in that forked repository.