Hi Sarai, On Apr 23, 2011, at 10:28, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
> All: > I just figured out how to use Safari reader, command shift r. My issue is it > doesn't work every time. Why won't it work on all articles? > Safari Reader actually borrowed an algorithm from the folks who ran the Arc90 lab experiment site for "Readability", a project to provide a distraction-free reading experience on-line. The answer is that on a page with lots of different blocks of content, it's not always clear which set of text is an article. Even in the current format, using Safari Reader will often give you the main article, but not the reader comments, although a link to a printer-friendly version of the same page, when provided, would give you both. This was discussed on the mac-access list back in February. I'll excerpt from a section of one of my posts, dated February 21, Subject was Re: "Readability" in Safari [was Re: Web Pages In Mobile iOS browsers]: <begin except> > James wrote: > >> As well as the Readability bookmarklet, which we still need to try, you can >> also use Command_Shift+R to bring up an article in the "Safari Reader". This >> doesn't always work however, and I'm not sure how Safari decides what >> constitutes an article. FYI, the "Safari Reader" produces a clutter-free >> page, much like the bookmarklet and only provides you with the links that >> are relevant to the article you're reading. > > James, this is another great tip. I'll add that the reason this Safari 5 > feature is much like the bookmarklet is that Apple incorporated parts of the > earlier open source Readability code version that lab.arc90.com developed for > the bookmarklet into the "Safari Reader" feature. I think you'll find that > you can continue to use the "Readability" bookmarklet in some instances where > the Command-Shift-R shortcut for "Safari Reader" doesn't work. The other > reason for posting about the bookmarklet, is that it allows use of a high > contrast background for low vision users while the "Safari Reader" options > cannot be customized. It can also be used with other web browsers on both > desktop and mobile platforms. (This is in case you're tracking the progress > of Opera, or using browsers cross-platform on a desktop. On the iPhone, some > people are using the "Atomic Browser" app to get the "desktop" version of web > sites on the iPhone, instead of viewing the "mobile only" version from > Safari, or using this on the iPad because there is a simple control to change > viewed font sizes. While the app is VoiceOver accessible, and will let you > change the identity of your browser to "Safari Desktop" and others, you may > still want to simplify the displayed article.) > > If you want to read a discussion about how the "Readability" bookmarklet > decides what is article, there's a nice post on the stackoverflow.com page. > I'll give a link, but since it's really long and might wrap, you may just > want to Google "stackoverflow readability algorithm". Incidentally, this > page is an example of where you can use the "Readability" bookmarklet, but > not the "Safari Reader" shortcut to read an uncluttered version of the > article. The URL address for this post is: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3652657/what-algorithm-does-readability-use-for-extracting-text-from-urls > Here's a shortened link: > http://bit.ly/hICd5F <end excerpt> You can also visit the web site for Readability at: https://www.readability.com/ Be aware that as of February, this project was spun off into a subscription service for reading web content. You can visit the site, and navigate to the link for "Download our free add-on". That will take you to a page that will let you add a "Read Now" button to your Safari toolbar. I like using the original "Read Now" bookmarklet better, because I can use it with my mobile Safari devices when I sync bookmarks. That's particularly easy to use with the iPad, if I show my Bookmarks Bar, and have this bookmarklet saved to that location. Also, on my Mac I can use the Readability bookmarklet with a shortcut like Command-1 (if it's the first bookmark on my Booksmarks Bar), and keep my toolbar and bookmarks bar hidden. This is, perhaps, a minor consideration, but makes using item chooser menu less cluttered. It's just a few more steps to navigate to the "Read Now" button on the toolbar, but you could set a hot spot. If you want to set up the old "Read Now" bookmarklet, you can either get sighted assistance to drag and drop the bookmarklet from the web page: https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets onto your Bookmarks bar, or you can find instructions in the February mac-access list archives for how to set this up yourself with VoiceOver. While there are only a few steps, it would be difficult to quickly explain here. The reason is that when they set up the new Readability site, all earlier links to the arc90 lab site with the bookmarklet got re-directed to the new site, so only the Spanish version of the original arc90 lab site still has the bookmarklet. The current bookmarklet page, has an accessibility error, where you can navigate to where the actual location of the link to copy it, when you move to it with VoiceOver. I don't think they intend for people to use that page, since it only showed up as a link from their main page for a few days the main page was redesigned. For information on joining the mac-access list and viewing its archives, visit: http://www.mac-access.net/ or go directly to the link for their mailing lists at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mailing-Lists.html HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. 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