New Features (v1.5.0.1)

• Prevents a paused kinetic guide from restarting when Simplified Reader closes.
• Keeps toolbar right-click controls synchronized with the active tab's live mask, injected UI, appearance, and domain settings.
• Refreshes menu checkmarks immediately after relevant changes.
• Places Ko-fi and Donate together in the first native menu section.

New Features (v1.5.0.0)

• Adds optional focus-fading paragraphs with adjustable background-text visibility.
• Adds a lightweight kinetic word guide with a configurable 60–800 WPM pace.
• Makes the kinetic guide independent of focus fading, starts it immediately when enabled, and uses a clearer high-contrast marker.
• Defers first-use onboarding until the user explicitly clicks the toolbar or injected control.
• Restyles the inactive session-timer status to match the adjacent session controls.

Aar318's Reading Mask Highlight v1.4.0.1

Mobile Drag Default Update

• Touch devices now default to dragging anywhere inside the clear reading band.
• Grip-only mobile dragging remains available as an optional Behavior setting for users who prefer to scroll through the rest of the band.
• Updated mobile guidance and onboarding text to match the selected drag mode.

Existing saved preferences remain respected; no permissions, site rules, appearance settings, or reading tools changed.

Aar318's Reading Mask Highlight v1.4.0.0

New: Accessibility and Comfort Presets

• Added Standard, Dyslexia Friendly, High Contrast, Warm Low-Glare, Cool Focus, and Reduced Motion presets.
• Presets coordinate Simplified Reader typography, spacing, contrast, tint, and motion without rewriting the original page.

New: Reading Session Tools

• Added optional reading-session timers, break reminders, reader progress, per-page resume position, and a one-click session restart.

Settings Navigation Improvement

• Moved Accessibility Preset and Simplified Reading directly below the primary mask controls so the most important reading tools are immediately available.
• Retained explanatory tooltips and local-only processing throughout the settings panel.

The standalone userscript remains separately versioned at v1.6.0.0 with equivalent reader comfort and session tools.

Reduced background work by pausing overlay attachment checks in hidden tabs and lowering their frequency while preserving dynamic-page recovery.

Existing local settings persistence continues to retain accessibility presets, Simplified Reader options, mask behavior, domain rules, and reading-session preferences across browser restarts.

Aar318's Reading Mask Highlight v1.3.0.0

• Mobile dragging now defaults to a dedicated ↕ grip, leaving the rest of the clear band available for normal page scrolling.
• Added a setting to switch grip-only mobile dragging on or off.
• Added first-run onboarding explaining toggle, mobile movement, settings, and Escape behavior.
• Added a conditional Simplified Reader that extracts article/main text into a local distraction-reduced view.
• Simplified Reader never uploads page content and is disabled when no article-style content is detected.
• The reading mask can remain active above Simplified Reader.
• Added clearer spacing around the Simplified Reader action.
• The mask now follows pointer movement inside Simplified Reader instead of becoming anchored near the bottom.
• Isolated settings markup parsing to avoid page parser warnings on sites using newer HTML expectation directives.
• Added resilient DOM reattachment for client-rendered sites such as Kick that replace early page children during hydration.
• Extension-icon toggles now reattach the overlay immediately so the visible mask and toolbar state stay synchronized.
• Added standardized “v1.3.0.0 by Hor318” metadata to the settings header with the author highlighted in dark green.

Aar318's Reading Mask Highlight v1.2.0.0

Changes since v1.1.0.0:
- Added direct touch dragging from anywhere inside the clear reading band on mobile.
- Kept normal webpage scrolling available when swiping outside the reading band.
- Added a subtle ↕ drag grip so the mobile gesture is easy to discover.
- Added pointer capture for smooth, responsive dragging even when the finger moves quickly.
- Preserved desktop pointer-follow positioning.
- Added keyboard positioning for the reading band with Arrow, Page Up/Down, Home, and End keys.
- Updated accessibility labels, slider state, tooltips, feature documentation, and the mobile quick guide.

No permissions were added. Settings remain local to the browser, and the extension performs no automatic network requests.

Aar318's Reading Mask Highlight v1.1.0.0
Changes since v1.0.1.0

• Added mobile-friendly tap and drag positioning with immediate touch response.
• Added dynamic viewport, browser-bar, orientation, resize, and display safe-area handling.
• Added larger touch targets and a mobile-responsive, scrollable settings layout.
• Moved the compact mobile Reading Mask control into a coordinated top-bar slot, avoiding Translator, TTS, and Stream Notifier controls.
• Kept the compact Reading Mask control aligned inside Twitch's mobile top bar instead of displacing it onto the video.
• Kept the control at a stable page position and lowered its stacking priority so Twitch dialogs and foreground app prompts naturally cover it instead of making it jump.
• Added touch long-press access to the injected control's settings panel.
• Added Escape as a reliable way to turn an active mask off, including when the injected control is hidden.
• Updated tooltips, accessible labels, help text, and feature documentation for the new controls.
• Preserved existing per-tab state, appearance options, domain rules, toolbar commands, support links, and privacy behavior.