Accessible Color Picker

Latest Version

Version
1.0.0.1
Update
October 24, 2022
Size
3.84MiB
Developer
Category
Users
8,000+
Rating
4.88889 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
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Accessible Color Picker Extension

There must be enhanced contrast between foreground and background text colors and images of text. Enhanced color contrast ensures that the page is usable by a very wide range of people with low vision and color deficiencies or when the page is viewed without color, and users of monochrome screens can understand page content.

Leverage this in-browser color picker to evaluate the accessibility of your color palette. This tool allows you to select foreground and background colors and will determine the color contrast ratio between them. If your colors do not have sufficient contrast, this tool will suggest similar colors that are compliant.

Additional features
* History of last 10 foreground and 10 background colors selected
* Preview sample text using selected colors
* Toggle foreground and background to test variations
* Editable hex codes with simple copy to clipboard button
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Accessible Color Picker", "version": "1.0.0.1", "description": "Accessible Color Picker", "action": { "default_title": "Accessible Color Picker", "default_icon": "img/dropper.png" }, "background": { "service_worker": "background.js", "type": "module" }, "permissions": [ "storage", "activeTab", "scripting" ], "icons": { "128": "img/dropper.png" }}
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How to download and manually install Accessible Color Picker extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Accessible Color Picker extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Accessible Color Picker extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Accessible Color Picker extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Accessible Color Picker extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Accessible Color Picker extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Accessible Color Picker Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Accessible Color Picker extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Accessible Color Picker extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Accessible Color Picker extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Accessible Color Picker extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Accessible Color Picker extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Accessible Color Picker extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Accessible Color Picker extension file

Select and download the Accessible Color Picker extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Accessible Color Picker extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Accessible Color Picker extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Accessible Color Picker extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Accessible Color Picker extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Hòa Thế (ID: 0000004fc9624ee2) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/20/2022 AMAYZING

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Ömer Bıçakcı (ID: 000000f966279902) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/29/2022 kullandıklarımın arasında en iyisi

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Tina Holly (ID: 000000cb49edc081) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 07/26/2022 This works pretty well, though it does have performance issues. It has some delay after clicking, about 500-1000ms and causes the layout to readjust. It appears to be doing some kind of zooming feature but this is arguably unnecessary—the user can zoom in with the default browser actions if necessary, or perhaps the zooming can be an optional feature. Due to this zooming, it feels quite janky as it's unusable until the zooming has completed, but it works well enough that I'll keep using it. I think if the performance issues are resolved, this is easily 5 stars.

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My Lefkada Creative Studio (ID: 000000af09b5b4b1) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/25/2020 Το καλύτερο από όσα έχω δοκιμάσει!

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Miranda Capra (ID: 000000115d891920) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/11/2019 This is a very useful tool for accessibility audits. I particularly love that it has a magnifier to pick a specific pixel, that it works on background images, and it grabs the non-focused/hovered color, which can be really hard to grab with many other tools. It's missing two features to make it absolutely perfect - it needs a way to get focused/hovered colors because sometimes you have to check those (especially for custom focus highlight colors), and it needs an a permalink feature that I can paste into reports to take the reader to a website that shows the colors and contrast level and some extra information. Until it adds a permalink, I will continue to paste permalinks to a competitor's online contrast checker into my audit reports. - Miranda Capra, PhD, CPWA