EasyView-Clarity For Every Brain

EasyView: An AI-powered Chrome extension for Neurodivergent minds. that transforms complex web content into clear, structured, and distraction-free reading.

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EasyView: Clarity for Every Brain

Inspiration

For most people, the internet is simply a tool for information.

But for millions of neurodivergent individuals — including people with ADHD, dyslexia, autism spectrum conditions, and sensory processing differences — the web can often feel overwhelming rather than empowering.

Long dense paragraphs. Complex jargon. Flashing ads. Moving animations. Walls of text with no structure.

What many people see as a normal webpage can feel like cognitive overload to someone whose brain processes information differently.

For a dyslexic reader, letters may appear to move or blur. For someone with ADHD, constant visual distractions can break concentration every few seconds. For individuals with sensory sensitivity, flashing elements can cause discomfort or anxiety.

This means something as basic as reading an article, filling a form, or understanding instructions online becomes exhausting.

And when access to information becomes difficult, it doesn't just affect convenience.

It affects education, career opportunities, digital independence, and confidence.

As developers, we felt that accessibility tools often focus on visual disabilities, while cognitive accessibility remains deeply overlooked.

So we asked ourselves a simple but powerful question:

What if the internet could adapt to different brains instead of forcing every brain to adapt to the internet?

That idea became EasyView.

A Chrome extension designed to reduce cognitive friction on the web and create a calmer, clearer reading experience for neurodivergent users.

Instead of rebuilding the internet, EasyView works as an intelligent accessibility layer on top of it.

What it does

EasyView is an accessibility-focused Chrome extension that helps neurodivergent users navigate web content more comfortably.

It introduces multiple assistive features designed specifically for cognitive accessibility.

Dyslexia-Friendly Reading Mode

EasyView provides customizable typography settings including:

  • Dyslexia-friendly fonts
  • Adjustable letter spacing
  • Word spacing controls
  • Line height adjustments
  • Larger readable font sizes

These changes make text easier to track and process.

AI-Powered Jargon Decoder

Many online articles contain complex terminology, especially in domains like:

  • medical information
  • legal content
  • finance
  • technical documentation

EasyView simplifies difficult terms into clear and understandable explanations, reducing the mental effort required to read.

Sensory Shield

Many neurodivergent users are sensitive to visual noise.

EasyView can:

  • pause flashing elements
  • reduce distracting animations
  • create a calmer reading environment

This helps users maintain focus without sensory overload.

Text-to-Speech Reading

Users can listen to webpage content through:

  • natural speech voices
  • adjustable speed
  • synchronized word highlighting

This helps people who struggle with reading fatigue or decoding written text.

Bionic Reading Mode

EasyView implements bionic reading techniques, where the beginning of words is emphasized to guide the brain's reading flow and improve focus.

Customizable Reading Environment

Users can apply overlays and themes that reduce eye strain and visual stress.

The goal is not just readability.

It is cognitive comfort.

EasyView transforms overwhelming web pages into clearer, calmer, and more accessible experiences.

How we built it

EasyView was developed as a lightweight browser-based accessibility system.

Chrome Extension Layer

The extension captures the content of the active webpage and identifies readable sections such as paragraphs and headings.

This content is then processed through EasyView’s transformation pipeline.

Content Processing Engine

The system analyzes webpage text and applies cognitive accessibility transformations such as:

  • typography optimization
  • structural formatting
  • jargon simplification
  • reading assistance features

To enable intelligent language understanding and simplification, EasyView leverages Amazon Nova foundation models through Amazon Bedrock. These models help interpret complex sentences, decode technical jargon, and restructure dense information into clearer, more accessible formats — allowing EasyView to act as a real-time cognitive reading assistant.

Content Transformation Logic

The simplified output can be represented conceptually as:

$$ T_{accessible} = f(T_{web}, R_{cognitive}, S_{structure}) $$

Where:

  • (T_{web}) = original webpage content
  • (R_{cognitive}) = cognitive accessibility rules
  • (S_{structure}) = readability improvements
  • (T_{accessible}) = transformed accessible content

User Interface Layer

The processed content is displayed directly inside the browser, allowing users to toggle accessibility features instantly without leaving the page.

The result is a real-time cognitive accessibility layer for the internet.

Challenges we ran into

Building EasyView presented several technical and design challenges.

Preserving Meaning During Simplification

AI simplification must maintain the original meaning of content. Over-simplifying text can remove critical context.

We had to carefully refine processing strategies to balance clarity and accuracy.

Extracting Content from Different Websites

Websites use many different HTML structures, which made consistent content extraction difficult.

We had to design flexible extraction logic to handle multiple webpage layouts.

Designing for Cognitive Accessibility

Accessibility for neurodivergent users is not just about UI.

It requires understanding how different brains process information, which involved research into cognitive ergonomics and reading behavior.

Maintaining Real-Time Performance

Because EasyView runs inside the browser, the system needed to remain lightweight and responsive without slowing down the browsing experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that EasyView:

  • Addresses a real accessibility gap affecting millions of people
  • Creates a practical tool that can be used every day
  • Brings attention to cognitive accessibility, which is often overlooked
  • Demonstrates how technology can support inclusive digital experiences

But most importantly, we are proud that EasyView represents technology built with empathy.

It shows that innovation does not always mean building something new.

Sometimes it means making the world easier to navigate for those who experience it differently.

What we learned

Working on EasyView taught us several important lessons.

Accessibility is not a niche feature.

It is a fundamental part of good design.

We also learned that:

  • AI can act as a cognitive assistant, not just an automation tool
  • Designing for neurodivergent users often improves usability for everyone
  • Technology becomes meaningful when it solves human problems

The most important lesson was simple:

When you design for the edges of human experience, you improve the center as well.

What's next for EasyView — Clarity For Every Brain

EasyView is just the first step.

Our vision is to expand it into a complete cognitive accessibility platform.

Future plans include:

  • Personalized accessibility profiles for different cognitive needs
  • AI-assisted reading summaries for complex content
  • learning-mode assistance for students with dyslexia and ADHD
  • voice-guided comprehension tools
  • integration with educational and research platforms

Our long-term vision is to create a system where the internet becomes adaptive to the mind of the reader.

A world where no one struggles to access knowledge simply because their brain processes information differently.

Because clarity should not depend on how your brain works.

Clarity should be universal.

Clarity should be for every brain.

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