natIgnite 2026 1st place - Bonita
First place
$3,000 CAD seed funding
$3,000 CAD in-kind services
Team information
Team Name: Bonita
Team Lead: Erika Jimenez Gonzalez
Team Members:
Aahil Yusuf
Momo Chen
Yijia Guo
Problem Provider: Jeevanshi Sharma
Project summary
A Chrome extension that restructures web text—splitting sentences, color-coding, and reading aloud—to help neurodivergent readers focus.
Problem statement
Dense, unstructured online text is difficult for neurodivergent readers, who can struggle to concentrate, lose their place on the page, and find it hard to decode grammatical relationships within sentences. Cognitive accessibility is widely overlooked in digital design.
Solution
A Chrome extension captures a page's content and sends it to a FastAPI / NLP backend that restructures it in real time. Features include sentence splitting, keyword bolding, colour-coding of nouns / verbs / adjectives, a Line Focus mode, and Text-to-Speech. Built with Vite (frontend) and FastAPI (backend NLP pipeline).
Key Highlights
Multiple complementary reading-support modes in one tool
Real-time content restructuring
Inclusion-centred design built during a 40-hour hackathon
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