Google recently released two new extensions for its Chrome browser this week, both aimed at helping those with disabilities better interact with the Web.

The first extension, Color Enhancer, is designed to help people with color blindness better distinguish between the shades they see when viewing webpages. Once you install it, Chrome gets a brand-new color filter. As part of the setup process, you're asked to pick which row of stars in a grid of stars looks the faintest. After that, you're given a grid of stars on backgrounds of different colors, and you're asked to use a little slider to tweak Chrome's colors until you can see all of the stars on all of the backgrounds.

The extension then changes up how Google displays colors on the browser, with the caveat that it might improve your experience or have no discernable effect whatsoever. It all depends on how well you navigated the setup process, as well as how well your specific color blindness can be addressed with the browser's adjustments.

Google's second extension, Animation Policy, allows you to adjust just how most animated images work in your browser. If you don't use it, some animations will just loop forever until you leave the particular pagewhich could be an annoyance, or a problem, for those browsing. Using Animation Policy, you can tell Chrome to either allow all animated images you stumble across without restrictions, or you can have Chrome play thembut just once. If animations are a particular issue for you, you can also have Chrome disable them entirely.

The tweak works on most image animations, but not video animations. And since it's browser-wide, you aren't given the specificity to set rules on a per-page basis. In other words, Buzzfeed might drive you crazy, but you might be OK with seeing the occasional animated GIF from time to time. Using Google's extension, it's an all-or-nothing proposition.

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If you happen to miss an animated image on a page that you want to seeassuming you're using the "play it once" optionthen you'll have to reload the page to see that image animate again. There's no way to just right-click on it and allow for an additional play, unfortunately.

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