AssisT

What is AssisT?

Featured on the Chrome Web Store — recognised by Google for quality, user experience, and design best practices. The badge was awarded at the 0.9.1 launch on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, 21 May 2026.

AssisT is a comprehensive Chrome extension that augments your learning abilities, not just assists them. Works inside Canvas, Moodle, Google Classroom and Google Docs, and on any site you choose. We believe technology should superpower every learner—leveling the playing field so everyone can excel.

Whether you’re neurodivergent, neurotypical, a visual learner, an auditory learner, or just want to learn more efficiently, AssisT provides 39 supports grouped into Reading, Writing, Seeing, Focus and Study, plus eight AI study tools with four AI modes. Everything except the AI features runs in your browser with no account, no subscription and no API key.

On a fresh install, nothing leaves your browser. When a support would send something of yours to an outside service, such as a dictionary or translation, AssisT asks you first, once, and names exactly what would be sent. The one exception is an online read-aloud voice, which you pick yourself and which is labelled online in the voice list. You can change any answer later in the popup.

Install AssisT from the Chrome Web Store

How-To Videos

New to AssisT? Watch our short how-to video guides — one for every feature, with filters for dyslexia, ADHD, visual impairment, and more.

Browse all how-to videos →

Enable on All Websites

AssisT uses a privacy-first permission model. By default, the extension works immediately on educational platforms:

Platform	Domains
Canvas LMS	*.instructure.com, *.canvas.com
Moodle	*.moodle.org, *.moodlecloud.com
Google Classroom	classroom.google.com
Google Docs	docs.google.com

Want AssisT on Every Website?

You can enable AssisT on all websites with a single click. This is optional and only needs to be done once:

1. Click the AssisT extension icon in your browser toolbar
2. Look for the “Enable Everywhere” button in the popup
3. Chrome will show a permission dialog asking to “Access your data on all websites”
4. Click Allow to grant permission

That’s it! AssisT now works on every website you visit. If a tab that was already open does not show it, reload that tab. You’re in control—you can revoke this permission anytime in Chrome’s extension settings.

Why does Chrome show this message? Chrome requires extensions to explicitly request permission before accessing websites. This protects your privacy by ensuring you consent to where extensions can run. Being able to run on a site is not the same as sending anything from it: AssisT reads pages on your device, and sends nothing to an outside service until you say yes to that service.

Quick Start Profiles

Get started instantly with pre-configured profiles in Advanced options → Preferences → Profile Management:

• ADHD Focus: Pomodoro timer enabled, progress tracking, simplified interface
• Dyslexia Support: OpenDyslexic font, wide spacing, reading progress bar
• Sensory Sensitive: No animations, muted colours, media blocking

The 39 Supports

The popup groups every support the same way the extension does, and you can search it by what you want to do (“read to me”, “too bright”) as well as by name. Mind Map is the only one marked beta.

Group	Supports
Reading (11)	Read Aloud, Highlight While Reading, Word by Word, Reading Mode, Dyslexia Mode, Read from Images (OCR), Maths Support, Translate Page, Show Text Stats, Read equations aloud, Summary reading level
Writing (6)	Speech-to-Text, Sticky Notes, Citations, Quick Actions Menu, Authorship Shield, Voice commands
Seeing (6)	Text Customization, Reading Guide, Screen Color Overlay, Custom Cursor, Magnifying Lens, Reduced Motion
Focus (5)	Focus Mode, Simplified Interface, Reading Progress, Pomodoro Timer, Auto-play Blocking
Study (11)	AI Assist, Mind Map (beta), Flashcards, Lecture companion, Study tools discovery, Personalised AI, Keep a record of how I work, Offer help when reading gets hard, Canvas LMS, Moodle LMS, Google Classroom

Beyond Accessibility: Augmentative Technology

Accessibility tools help you cope. Augmentative tools help you excel.

AssisT represents a paradigm shift in educational technology:

• Not a crutch, but a superpower — Features like AI summarisation, text-to-speech, and OCR don’t just make content “accessible,” they enhance how everyone learns
• Leveling the playing field — Everyone has different learning strengths. AssisT lets you leverage YOUR strengths instead of struggling with your weaknesses
• For all learners — Yes, AssisT was designed with neurodivergent students in mind, but neurotypical students benefit just as much. Speed readers use TTS. Honor students use AI summarisation. Visual learners use highlighting. Everyone learns differently.

Think of AssisT as augmented learning — just as augmented reality enhances what you see, AssisT enhances how you learn, comprehend, and retain information.

Key Features

Reading & Listening

Text-to-Speech with Synchronised Highlighting

Listen to any web content using your browser’s voices. Read Aloud starts with a voice that runs on your device; online voices are still there, and the voice picker says which company each one sends your text to. Words are highlighted as they’re read, helping you follow along. Customise speech rate (0.5x–2.0x), pitch, volume, and choose from 8 highlight colours.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+Space (pause/resume), Ctrl+Shift+S (stop)

Reading Mode

Distraction-free view that removes navigation, sidebars, and ads. Powered by Mozilla Readability for clean content extraction. Full TTS integration included.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+R (toggle), Escape (exit)

Dyslexia-Optimised Reading Modes

Three ways of reshaping text, one active at a time:

• Syllable colours (the default): alternating colour backgrounds break words into visual chunks
• Grammar colours: colours parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives)
• Bionic reading: bolds the opening letters of words to guide eye movement

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Y (toggle)

OCR & Screenshot Tool

Capture and extract text from images, PDFs, and scanned documents. Recognition runs on your device with Tesseract.js, with 14 recognition languages to choose from. The engine and English ship inside AssisT, so English needs no download. Another language’s file is downloaded once, after AssisT asks you; your image is never sent. A scanned page can be read aloud as soon as it is recognised if you switch on Auto-play TTS. Adjustable upscaling and confidence thresholds, plus an optional accuracy boost that preprocesses the image (contrast, binarisation, sharpening, upscale) before recognition.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+O (capture)

Maths Support

Numeracy accommodations for dyscalculic and neurodivergent students, off by default. An on-page calculator with a persistent scratchpad that you can operate from the keyboard, and large-number formatting that groups digits, keeps the value copy-safe, speaks the number in words to a screen reader instead of digit-by-digit, and can colour place values. Both tools load only when you switch them on.

Writing & Voice Input

Speech-to-Text

Dictate text directly into any input field using Chrome’s speech recognition, which is a Google service: while you dictate, the sound of your voice goes to Google to be turned into text, so AssisT asks you before dictation first starts. Works with standard text inputs, contenteditable elements, and Canvas’s rich content editor. Dictation tells you in plain words when it is starting, recording, paused, or blocked because the microphone is not allowed. Features include:

• 80 spoken command forms for editing, formatting and navigation, with several ways to say each action
• Smart auto-punctuation with three modes: Automatic, Assisted, and Manual
• Confidence feedback with colour-coded accuracy indicators
• Custom vocabulary with domain presets for Medical, Legal, Academic, and STEM
• Always-on field detection that automatically shows the microphone button when you focus any text field

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+V (start or stop dictation)

Sticky Notes & Annotations

Create floating notes on any webpage. Tag and categorise notes, export them, and view all annotations in a dedicated panel.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+N (create note)

Study & Research Tools

Dictionary Lookup

Instant definitions for selected words with example sentences and part-of-speech information. Uses the Free Dictionary API, which receives only the word you look up, and only after you allow it.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+D

Translation

Translate a selection into any of 37 languages, or a whole page with Translate Page into 14: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi.

Translation uses MyMemory, which is free and needs no API key. It receives the text you translate, so AssisT asks you first. Translate Page has its own question, because it sends all the visible text of the page, and it shows you how much text that is before you answer.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+T

Mind Map (Beta)

An outline-first way to plan an essay or revise a topic. The outline pane is a WAI-ARIA tree with a full keyboard map, and the canvas is a second view of the same map with pan, zoom and drag re-parenting, so both edit one model.

• Six templates: essay plan, lecture notes, compare and contrast, project plan, reading notes, blank
• A library of your maps with search, rename, delete and import
• File menu: New map, Open, Save, Save as, Import a file, and export to Markdown, OPML, JSON, SVG, PNG or a FreeMind .mm file. Markdown, OPML and JSON round-trip losslessly
• Open maps made in XMind, Coggle, MindMeister, Freeplane or FreeMind, or a plain indented outline. Files are read on your own computer and always open as a new map
• Focus on one branch (Alt+Shift+F): the outline and the picture show just that branch until you press Escape
• Select several nodes with Shift and the arrow keys, Ctrl+Space or Ctrl+click, then move, colour, tick, fold or delete them together, with one undo
• Drag a node above, below or inside another, or use “Move to…” (Alt+M) to move it without dragging
• Read aloud speaks a branch with your stored voice and highlights the node being read
• Study mode hides children for recall practice, and each miss can be turned into a flashcard
• “Add to mind map” in the highlight menu sends a phrase from any page into the map you choose
• With an AI provider set up, the AI panel can build a map from the page or from pasted text, suggest sub-points, explain a node into its notes, and turn a branch into recall questions

Mind Map works with AI switched off. “Map this page” turns a page’s headings into branches without asking any model.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+M (open Mind Maps)

Read the Mind Map guide →

Citation Management

Capture a source from any page and format it in APA 7th, MLA 9th, Harvard (Cite Them Right) or Chicago 17th (author–date). Your chosen style is remembered.

• In-text citations with page locators, copied in a rich and a plain flavour at once
• A checker that compares the citations in your essay against your reference list and reports what is in one and not the other, on your device
• Quote, locator and note capture when you save a source
• Add a source by DOI, and import an existing library from Zotero as BibTeX or RIS
• 10 source types including book chapters and theses, and sources with no date
• A Citation Library with collections, tags, bulk select, copy and export, and a trash you can restore from
• A quick source check that gives a plain rating (Looks reliable, Check before you use it, or Hard to tell) with the reasons behind it
• Export to BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, CSV, AssisT JSON or a plain-text reference list

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+C (save the selected text as a citation), Alt+Shift+U (move focus to Undo in the Saved tray)

Text Statistics

Track word count, character count, sentence count, paragraph count, and estimated reading time.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+W

Highlight Menu

Quick-access toolbar appears when you select text. Its actions are Read Aloud, Dictionary, Translate, Annotate, Save as Citation and Speed Read, plus Add to mind map and Make a flashcard while those supports are on. Eight AI actions appear when AI is enabled: Summarise, Simplify, Break Down Assignment, Socratic Tutor, Knowledge Graph, Analyse Citation, Multi-Document Compare and Study Path. Auto-hides after a delay you can set.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+H (toggle)

Visual Comfort & Accessibility

Focus Mode

Dims everything outside a clear reading window that follows your cursor. Set the window width (150px to 800px), its height (50px to 250px) and how dark the rest of the page goes (10% to 100%).

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+F

Reading Guide

Horizontal line that follows your cursor to help you keep your place. Choose the colour (Black, White, Red, Blue, Green, Magenta or Orange), the thickness (1px to 10px) and the opacity.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+G

Screen Color Overlay

Apply a colour tint for visual comfort: Warm Sepia (the default), Soft Yellow, Peach, Cream, Cool Blue, Soft Green, Light Pink or Lavender, at 10% to 90% intensity. Works over Google Docs and Google Sheets too.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+O

Reading Progress Bar

Visual indicator showing scroll progress. Position it at the top or bottom of the page, in Green, Blue, Orange, Purple or Pink, with the percentage shown if you want it.

Text Customisation

• Fonts: System default, Lexend, OpenDyslexic, Comic Sans MS and Arial change the page font. Atkinson Hyperlegible, Verdana, Andika and Comic Neue appear in the list but do not change the page font in 1.0.0.
• Spacing Controls: line spacing (1.0-3.0), letter spacing (0-0.5em, 0.12em by default), word spacing (0-0.5em, 0.16em by default), paragraph spacing (1.0-4.0em, 2.0em by default)

All spacing options are WCAG 2.2 SC 1.4.12 compliant.

Reduced Motion

Disables all animations for users with vestibular disorders. Respects the prefers-reduced-motion system preference. WCAG 2.1 SC 2.3.3 compliant.

Custom Cursor & Magnifying Lens

Enhanced cursor visibility in four styles: Crosshair, Circle, Dot with Ring and Large Arrow, sized 24px to 96px, with accurate hotspot positioning for each. The Magnifying Lens is a floating window at 1.5x to 4x that follows your cursor, and can be offset so it does not sit on top of what you are reading. The custom cursor works inside Google Docs and Google Sheets too.

Productivity

Pomodoro Timer

Configurable work intervals (5 to 60 minutes), short breaks (1 to 30 minutes) and long breaks (5 to 45 minutes), in any corner of the page, with optional auto-start on breaks and a sound when a session ends. Designed with ADHD support in mind.

Auto-play Blocking

Block autoplay video and audio to prevent distractions and sensory overload.

Neurodivergent User Profiles

Built-in Profiles (12)

Twelve profiles ship with the extension. Apply one in Advanced options → Preferences → Profile Management, then change anything you like afterwards.

• Default
• Reading Mode
• Quiz Mode
• Low Vision
• ADHD Focus
• Autism Comfort
• Dyslexia Support
• Sensory Sensitive
• Night Study
• Anxiety Calm
• Motor Impairment
• Low Vision STT

Speech-to-Text Profiles (7)

Separate speech-to-text configurations. Each sets how many alternative words are offered, whether words show as you speak, and which voice commands apply:

1. Default: Standard settings
2. ADHD Focus: Simple voice commands
3. Dyslexia Support: Three alternative words offered, simple voice commands
4. Anxiety Calm: Standard voice commands
5. Motor Impairment: Two alternative words offered, voice commands start with “command”
6. Low Vision: Standard voice commands
7. Autism Comfort: Literal voice commands starting with “do”, words shown only once final

AI Features (Optional)

AssisT offers four AI modes to match your privacy and performance needs. AI is off until you choose a mode. Switch between modes using the AI Assist support in the popup.

1. Off Mode

No AI processing. Every support except the AI study tools works exactly as it does with AI on. Choose this if you don’t need AI assistance or want to minimise resource usage.

2. Local AI (Ollama)

• Privacy: 100% private, runs on your computer
• Cost: Free
• Requirements: Ollama installation
• Best For: Users prioritising privacy and offline access, and institutions that need no text to leave the device

Live model selector — AssisT shows the models you have installed that can hold a conversation in a dropdown. Switch models without restarting.

Recommended models:

• qwen3:4b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M (2.5GB) - for modest computers, with no separate graphics card or 4 to 6 GB of graphics memory
• qwen3.5:9b (6.6GB) - the default; for a graphics card with 8 GB of memory, and it reads images too
• qwen3.5:27b (17GB) - the most capable and much slower; needs 20 GB or more of graphics memory

Permission - AssisT does not ask for access to your local AI server when you install it. The first time you switch Local AI on, or apply a custom server address, Chrome shows an “Allow” prompt for the loopback address (localhost or 127.0.0.1 on port 11434). Choose Allow and the extension can reach Ollama; until you do, the popup says local AI needs your permission rather than telling you to start Ollama. A student who never uses local AI is never asked. You can withdraw the permission at any time in Chrome’s extension settings.

Server address - the Local AI panel accepts a custom Ollama address as well as the default loopback one. The public build only permits loopback addresses; an institution running a shared Ollama server adds its own host to its build.

Reasoning models - qwen3 and deepseek-r1 are handled correctly: their thinking text is kept out of the answer, and JSON-mode requests still get valid JSON back.

3. Browser AI (WebLLM)

• Privacy: 100% private, runs in your browser tab
• Cost: Free
• Requirements: WebGPU-capable browser (Chrome 113+)
• Best For: Zero-install AI — no software to install at all

Browser-native AI powered by WebLLM and WebGPU. Models download once and run entirely in your browser—no server, no API, no installation.

Performance note: Browser AI uses WebGPU, which is significantly slower than a native GPU runtime. Responses typically take 30–90 seconds. If you need faster local AI, use Local AI (Ollama) — it runs the same models at full GPU speed.

Available models: Llama 3.2 1B, Gemma 2B, Llama 3.2 3B, Phi-3.5 Mini, Qwen 2.5 3B, Mistral 7B, Llama 3.1 8B and Gemma 2 9B. Smaller models download faster and need less memory; larger ones give better answers.

Models download once, from Hugging Face, when you choose one; the code that runs them ships inside AssisT. The download carries no text of yours.

The AI Setup Wizard shows which models are already cached on your device, which need downloading, and lets you remove all downloaded models to free up browser storage.

4. Cloud AI (Your API Key)

• Privacy: The text you ask about is sent to your chosen provider (not Fiavaion), only once you save your own key, which is how you say yes. Chrome asks for permission to reach that provider at the same moment
• Cost: Free with Google Gemini; paid for other providers
• Providers: Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (ChatGPT), Perplexity
• Best For: Maximum capability, latest AI features, complex analysis

Supported providers:

• Google Gemini - free API key, no credit card required
• Anthropic - Claude, paid
• OpenAI - paid
• Perplexity - Sonar, paid

Each provider’s model picker lists the current models for that provider, so the choices follow the provider rather than the extension’s release cycle. Model names are deliberately not printed here: they change more often than this page does.

API keys are encrypted and stored on your device, never sent to Fiavaion. You can see and remove every saved key in the popup under Advanced options, Your data.

Learn more about AI modes and setup →

Choosing a Mode

The AI Assist support in the popup says which mode you are in, in words, and opens the place to change it: the AI setup page the first time, and the AI settings after that.

AI setup recommends Local AI on a computer with a separate graphics card or an Apple chip, with Browser AI as the next choice. A browser cannot see how much graphics memory a computer has, and it reports 8 GB of RAM as 8 GB or more, so treat the recommendation as a starting point.

• Cloud: provider, API key and model
• Browser AI: a model picker with download buttons and progress bars
• Local AI: live Ollama status and a list of the models you have installed

8 AI Study Tools

With any AI mode enabled (except Off), you get:

• Smart Summarisation: Brief, Moderate or Detailed
• Text Simplification: Three complexity levels for better comprehension
• Assignment Breakdown: Convert instructions to step-by-step checklists
• Socratic Tutor: Guided questions for deeper learning — smart hint filtering suppresses generic canned responses
• Multi-Document Compare: Analyse and contrast multiple text sources side-by-side — includes Read All TTS button
• Knowledge Graph: Visualise concept connections with interactive node graphs — optimised for local AI with smart token limits and person-detection heuristics
• Citation Analyzer: a quick look at the clues in a source, with a plain rating and its reasons
• Study Path Generator: Create personalised learning roadmaps — includes Copy and Read All buttons

All eight use one shared AI client, so every mode behaves the same way in every tool. Each tool’s “API key required” screen names the provider you actually chose.

The Popup

The popup puts every support on one screen: a bar of group buttons across the top (Reading, Writing, Seeing, Focus, Study), one group of supports at a time, a search field that understands what you want to do, a compact header, and a light or dark theme. Advanced options (the gear) holds the Features, Keyboard, Preferences, AI and Your data tabs.

Companion Features

These supports sit in the popup alongside the rest, each with its own switch, so you can turn off any one of them without affecting the others. They are on by default.

• Study tools discovery - a one-time tip that shows the AI study tools in the select-text menu
• Personalised AI - your learning profile shapes the answers every AI feature gives you
• Read equations aloud - equations join the synchronised-highlight reading flow instead of being skipped
• Authorship Shield - a private writing history kept on your device that you can export as a report if your work is ever questioned
• Flashcards - spaced-repetition cards made from your own highlights, from the highlight menu, and from the points you miss in mind map study mode
• Summary reading level - sets how simply AI summaries and simplifications are written: Standard, Plain language or Very plain
• Lecture companion - live captions and structured notes from your microphone. Lecture capture sends everything the microphone hears to Google’s speech recognition, so it asks you first, separately from dictation. A Start lecture captions button under its switch in the popup opens the notes card on any page, or says in plain words why it cannot (a browser or Web Store page, or a page AssisT is not running on). If Chrome blocks the microphone or cannot reach its speech service, the card stops and says what to do
• Voice commands - hands-free control, such as “read this page”, “save citation”, “open my library”, “open calculator”, “summarize this page” and “simplify this”

Your Learning Record

Two supports watch how you work. Both are off until you turn them on, and both are described in plain words in the popup first.

• Keep a record of how I work counts which tools you use, your reading speed and your streak, on this device only, to pitch AI answers at you. See what is recorded shows every count it holds, and Delete this record removes it after asking you to confirm.
• Offer help when reading gets hard watches your scrolling, how long you stay on a paragraph and how often you look words up, so it can offer to read aloud or simplify. It saves nothing.

For Institutions

An institution deploying AssisT through managed Chrome policy can give it a signed institution key that applies the institution’s name and accent colour. Keys are verified offline against a public key bundled in the extension and fail closed if they do not verify. The accent colour is darkened automatically so that contrast still meets WCAG 2.2 AA on every surface. The key is cosmetic and grants AssisT nothing extra. The public build carries no key and is unbranded, and the popup no longer has a field for pasting a key.

Keyboard Shortcuts

All 18 page shortcuts are customisable in Advanced options, Keyboard. Chrome-reserved shortcuts are blocked automatically, and every shortcut needs at least one modifier key (Ctrl, Alt or Shift), except Escape and the function keys F1 to F12, which type no character. The mind map editor has 12 shortcuts of its own, customisable and checked for conflicts in the same place.

Action	Shortcut
TTS: Pause/Resume	Ctrl+Shift+Space
TTS: Stop	Ctrl+Shift+S
OCR: Activate Screenshot	Alt+O
Reading Mode: Toggle	Alt+R
Reading Mode: Exit	Escape
Dictionary: Lookup Selected Text	Alt+Shift+D
Text Statistics: Toggle Display	Ctrl+Shift+W
Highlight Menu: Toggle	Ctrl+Shift+H
Sticky Notes: Create New Note	Alt+N
Translation: Toggle	Alt+T
Citations: Save Selected Text	Alt+C
Saved tray: Move focus to Undo	Alt+Shift+U
Voice Typing: Start/Stop Dictation	Alt+Shift+V
Open Mind Maps	Alt+Shift+M
Focus Mode: Toggle	Alt+F
Reading Guide: Toggle	Alt+G
Screen Overlay: Toggle	Alt+Shift+O
Dyslexia Mode: Toggle	Alt+Y

If you saved a custom shortcut set before this release, it picks up any new default keys rather than ignoring them, so the new keys are there without you rebuilding the set.

Known Limitations

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

Google draws the document in Docs, Sheets and Slides on a canvas instead of as page text, so extensions cannot read or select the words in it. This comes from how Google built these editors, not from AssisT.

In those editors, selecting words does not bring up AssisT’s highlight menu, word-by-word highlighting cannot follow the document itself, and tools that read the document’s text from the page cannot see it. The AssisT toolbar can also sit over part of a spreadsheet or the Slides filmstrip.

Google Classroom pages themselves, such as assignment instructions, the stream and comments, are ordinary pages, and AssisT works on them as normal.

We are asking Google for the access it gives some writing tools, and we are looking for a fix. Read more in Troubleshooting.

Privacy & Data

AssisT is built with privacy as a core principle:

• No tracking: We don’t collect any user data
• No accounts: Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to
• Nothing of yours leaves until you say yes: on a fresh install nothing leaves your browser, with one exception: if you pick an online read-aloud voice yourself, the text being read is sent to the company that runs that voice. Each outside service that would receive something of yours, such as the dictionary, translation, citation lookup, dictation or a cloud AI provider, is asked about once, in plain words, before anything is sent. You can change any answer in the popup under Advanced options, Your data
• Local settings only: Your preferences are stored in chrome.storage.local, on the device you set them on. Nothing syncs across devices. Annotations, citations, mind maps and the Authorship Shield writing history are stored on your device in IndexedDB and are never uploaded
• GDPR: Fiavaion processes no personal data. Any cloud AI or translation provider you enable is your own sub-processor, under your agreement with them
• FERPA: designed with FERPA principles in mind — no student data is collected

The privacy policy names every service AssisT can reach, what each receives and when. Fiavaion never sees any of it.

Read our full Privacy Policy →

Accessibility Standards

WCAG 2.2 Level AA is the standard AssisT is built and tested against. The Accessibility Conformance Report for 1.0.0 is a self-assessment by the developer, not an independent audit: its criterion tables are carried forward from the 0.9.3 assessment, with separate notes for what 1.0.0 added. Of its 52 rows, 38 are rated Supports, 4 Partially Supports and 10 not applicable, with none rated Does Not Support, and it flags the 1.0.0 features that have not yet been tested against those criteria. Screen-reader testing with NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver has not been done, and a third-party audit is planned but not commissioned. What is in place today:

• Semantic HTML structure throughout
• Full keyboard navigation support
• Screen reader compatible with ARIA labels
• High contrast mode available
• Focus indicators on all interactive elements
• Text spacing meets SC 1.4.12 requirements
• Reduced motion respects SC 2.3.3

What’s New

Release history is published on GitHub Releases and rendered automatically below. The full versioned CHANGELOG is in the repository.

Latest - v1.0.0 - First stable release

Everything since 0.9.3: Mind Map (beta) with import from other mind map tools, Maths Support, consent before anything leaves your device, a Your data tab, the new popup with search, the rebuilt citation manager, the companion features, dictation and save-tray shortcuts, and a long list of accessibility fixes. The full notes are in the changelog.

v0.9.3 - 29 May 2026

Citation manager overhaul, cross-browser API abstraction, the lms-adapter and local-ai-router package scaffolds, a pluggable prompt registry, and a Firefox build target.

v0.9.2 - 23 May 2026

• Ollama model catalogue — 11 curated models by category (General, Reasoning, Multilingual, Code, Vision) with hardware tiers (4 GB / 8 GB RAM)
• “Remove all downloaded models” button in Browser AI setup — clears WebLLM cached model storage
• Browser AI speed warning added to setup wizard — honest 30–90s caveat; directs speed-sensitive users to Ollama

v0.9.1 — 21 May 2026 — GAAD Launch

First public Chrome Web Store release, launched on Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026. Awarded the Chrome Web Store Featured badge by Google.

v0.9.0 — 15 May 2026 — Final Beta

EUPL-1.2 licence, VPAT 2.5, GDPR font bundling, 27 MB → 11 MB bundle, XSS/security audit, TTS Reading Scope + Word Highlight Speed, full gap audit.

View the full release history on GitHub →

Technical Details

• 39 supports across Reading, Writing, Seeing, Focus and Study, plus 8 AI study tools
• 4 AI modes: Off, Cloud, Browser AI (WebLLM), Local AI (Ollama)
• 18 customisable page shortcuts, plus 12 in the mind map editor
• 80 spoken command forms while dictating, plus a separate hands-free voice palette
• 12 built-in profiles in the popup, plus 7 speech-to-text profiles
• Fonts: System default, Lexend, OpenDyslexic, Comic Sans MS and Arial
• 4 citation styles: Harvard (Cite Them Right, the default), APA 7th, MLA 9th, Chicago 17th, across 10 source types
• 37 languages for translating a selection, 14 for a whole page
• 14 recognition languages for OCR text extraction
• 8 WebLLM models available for browser-native AI
• Licence: EUPL-1.2 — free to use, modify and redistribute under the same licence. The source is public

For learning support and disability services

If you are assessing AssisT for a college or university, everything a disability support officer needs to make an adoption decision is collected on one page: the Accessibility Conformance Report, the privacy and data-processing statement, the sub-processor list, the managed deployment guide, the licence and the support commitments.

AssisT for learning support and disability services →

Support Development

Love AssisT? Help us continue building accessible learning tools for everyone. Look for the Support button in the extension popup.

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