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Helperbird Display Features That Make a Page Easier to See

The Display panel holds five tools that make a page easier to see: High contrast, Highlight links, Saturation, Cursor size and Magnifier. Learn what each does.

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What This Does

The Display panel holds five tools. Each one changes how a page looks, so it is easier to see.

That is a different job from making text easier to read. Fonts, spacing and text to speech live in other panels.

You can turn on as many of these as you want at once. They are separate settings.


Who is This For?

This panel helps if:

  • You have low vision
  • You lose the mouse pointer on a busy page
  • Pale grey text on a white background is hard to make out
  • You cannot tell which words on a page are links
  • You want the page bigger without changing anything else

A Guide for Each Part

Each display control, what it does, and its guide.
ControlWhat it doesGuide
High contrastIncreases the difference between the text and the background. You pick a style: Increased Contrast, Greyscale, Inverted Color, Inverted Greyscale or Yellow on Black.High contrast
Highlight linksMarks every link with a striped bar, so you do not have to rely on color.Highlight links
SaturationMakes the colors on the page stronger.Saturation
Cursor sizeMakes the mouse pointer bigger. Four sizes: Small, Medium, Large and Extra large.Cursor size
MagnifierScales the whole page up or down.Magnifier

Three Things Worth Knowing

Saturation only adds color. It cannot take color away. At the lowest setting the page looks normal. At the highest, the colors are four times as strong. To remove color instead, pick the Greyscale style in High contrast.

The Magnifier goes both ways. The slider runs from -100% to +100% in steps of 10%. 0% is the normal page size, and anything below 0% makes the page smaller. It scales the whole page, so it is not a lens that follows your pointer.

Cursor size is free. It used to be a Pro feature. Every one of the five tools in this panel is now in the free version.



Need Additional Help?

If you have any questions or run into any issues, please contact the Helperbird support team. You can reach us at Helperbird support. We are happy to help you get the most out of Helperbird.

Printed from the Helperbird Help Center · Updated August 12th, 2026

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