CLARA
Core Logic And Reasoning Assistant · Hacktoberfest Mannheim × Q-Summit 2026
CLARA is a Chrome extension that opens the web to blind, low-vision, deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Talk to her and she opens the page or YouTube video for you, reads it aloud in her own voice, captions videos live, describes images, fixes low-contrast text, rewrites hard text in plain language, and fingerspells names in ASL. Built with Gemma 4 and ElevenLabs.
Open CLARA Live: nothing to install →Or install the Chrome extension
- Download the CLARA extension (.zip) and unzip it.
- Open
chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode (top right), click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder. - Click the CLARA icon in the toolbar. The side panel opens, already connected.
- Press Talk to CLARA (or Alt+Shift+C) and say “open mlh dot com” or “play Hacktoberfest on YouTube”. The first time, Chrome asks for the microphone in a new tab.
Test pages
- Control page: built to fail accessibility checks (unlabeled images, low contrast, legal text, names to fingerspell).
- Actual site: mlh.com, opened with the extension on.
Source code: gitlab.com/j.michaelduhart/clara-a11y