Why a Low-Vision User Switched to Kagi: Less Clutter, Better Results

A low-vision accessibility writer describes how visually noisy search results pages—stuffed with AI summaries, ads, auto-playing media, and cramped layouts—were causing significant visual fatigue and eating into the energy she had available for actual research. Text-to-speech tools helped with reading individual pages but did nothing to fix the browsing experience itself, so she switched to Kagi, a paid subscription search engine that removes ads and tracking-based monetization in favor of a cleaner, user-controlled results page.

The piece walks through Kagi’s pricing tiers ($5 to $25 per month, with a fair-use credit policy for unused months) and highlights the customization features that matter most for accessibility: Lenses for filtering results to specific source types, per-domain controls to block, lower, raise, or pin sites, custom Bangs for shortcut searches, and widget visibility toggles. The author notes that Kagi surfaces more independent blogs and small-web content rather than recycled SEO-optimized GenAI articles, which she finds particularly valuable when researching assistive technology topics.

The rest of the article is a practical setup guide covering how to make Kagi the default search engine across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, and Safari on both desktop and mobile, including the manual configuration URLs for browsers that support custom search engines. The post is explicitly unsponsored.