read-it-aloud

Changelog

All notable changes to Read It Aloud will be documented in this file across all browser versions.

The format follows Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Chrome: Stop button no longer locks the player. Previously, pressing Stop discarded the playback session, leaving play, skip, and seek unresponsive until the player was closed and the text re-selected. Stop now halts playback and rewinds to the start while keeping the generated audio — press play to replay, or scrub and skip freely. (In-flight ElevenLabs requests are still aborted on Stop to protect your quota.)
Chrome: Dark-mode contrast fixes. The play/pause icon was nearly invisible against the control button in dark mode — now renders clearly. Field borders, the text panel edge, and the progress track were too faint against the dark background and are now visible.

Chrome: Support footer copy refreshed — now references all three BMaC tiers gracefully (“drop a coffee, become a monthly supporter, or settle the tab for life”) via a single “Support the project” button.
Chrome: BMaC slug cased to ReadItAloud to match the canonical URL.
Chrome: Manifest description rewritten to lead with the accessibility audience — “Text to speech for any webpage. Built for ADHD, dyslexia & tired eyes. Natural ElevenLabs voices with full playback controls.” This is the text the Chrome Web Store displays as the listing summary.

Chrome: Support footer in popup with “Buy Me a Coffee” and “GitHub Sponsors” buttons.
Chrome: README repositioned around ADHD / dyslexia / accessibility audience.
Chrome: Store listing copy added with audience-led short and long descriptions.

Chrome: Dual-tone outline on the floating play button and mini-player so the widget is visible on any page background (light or dark).

Chrome: Scrollable follow-along text panel — current sentence highlights and the panel scrolls with the audio.
Chrome: Friendly API error messages for 401, 402, 403, 404, 422, 429, and 5xx responses.
Chrome: Multi-chunk concurrency cap at 3 simultaneous in-flight requests.
Chrome: Long-selection (>25K chars) warning shown to the user.
Chrome: Full ARIA coverage on all controls; aria-live regions; aria-valuenow on progress bar.

Chrome: Stop button now cancels in-flight ElevenLabs requests via AbortController. Previously, stopping playback did not stop the API request — burning ElevenLabs credits on audio that would never play.

Chrome: Dead iframe-based player code (player-frame.html, player-frame.js).
Chrome: web_accessible_resources entry removed since the iframe approach is no longer used.

Chrome: Audio playback on strict-CSP sites (claude.ai, etc.) that block blob URLs and inline media. The extension now routes audio playback through a chrome.offscreen document, which is exempt from page-level CSP, autoplay policy, and media-safety checks.

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