Esther, Thanks for the helpful info. I'll tackle this tomorrow. Stacey Robinson
On Nov 22, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Stacey, > > Yes, I've tried the readability plug-in and also the earlier > bookmarklet. The older bookmarklet is faster and works better than > the plug-in, in my opinion, and can be used more easily on iOS > devices. This is basically another service like Safari Reader that > originally developed from Marco Arment's Instapaper app. The idea was > to provide distraction-free reading by only displaying text and images > related to the article on a web page and it was originally implemented > as a javascript bookmarklet. This offered a few extra features for > low-vision readers over Safari Reader: you could select the contrast > and font type as well as the font size, and you could choose the size > of the text margins. I wrote up an extensive series of posts about > this on the mac-access list back in February 2011, mainly because the > topic started by a sighted user asking about ways to increase font > sizes in web pages on iOS devices. There are various javascript > bookmarklets that can do this. > > If you want to find the Readability plug-in, you can get it from this > URL: > http://www.readability.com/addons > Navigate to the "Download (It's free!)" link and follow the > instructions on the web page for installing it. > > There is also a web page with their current bookmarklets, but it's > badly designed so that when you navigate to the bookmarklet with a > screen reader, your focus is not really on that element, and you can't > bring up a contextual menu to download it. Furthermore, they've > changed the javascript so that reformatting the page takes longer, > mainly because they are trying to pull you back to their paid > subscription service. If you want to use the earlier bookmarklet, go > instead to this page named "Readabilitude": > http://www.readabilitude.com/ > 1. Use the Command-D shortcut to create a bookmark to this page, and > VO-Space on pop up menu in the dialog window to the set the saved > location to the "Bookmarks Bar". Type in any name you like for the > bookmark (e.g. "Readability") > 2. Navigate to the "Readability" link and use the context menu (VO- > Shift-M) to "Copy link" > 3. Command-Option-B to bring up the "Show all bookmarks" page > 4. Navigate to the table of Bookmark collections with VO-Command-Shift- > T (alternatively, you can press Command-F, and VO-Left arrow or Left > arrow twice to the table) > 5. Interact with the table and navigate to the "Bookmarks Bar" > 6. VO-J to jump to the table of bookmarks in your "Bookmarks Bar". > You'll be at the first entry (e.g. the "Readability" bookmark). > 7. Bring up the context menu (VO-Shift-M) and select "Edit Address" > 8. Paste in the link you copied from the web page with Command-V. > (This inserts the javascript code for reformatting the page with text > only into the URL address). > 9. Command-Option-B to toggle out of the "Show all bookmarks page" > > You now have a "Readability" bookmarklet on your bookmarks bar. To > use it, go to some web page with an article mixed in with graphics and/ > or adds. Press Command-1 to launch the bookmarklet. This should work > like the Command-Shift-R shortcut of Safari Reader. However, you'll > find this bookmarklet works on some pages where Safari reader does > not. You'll also find in some forum pages that the Readability > bookmarklet will let you read comments, where Safari reader will not. > > There are other gains for low vision users. They can select radio > buttons on the "Readabilitude" web page to select the size of font, > background contrast, and margins, so that the reformatting gives them > a more comfortable reading contrast, that also does not invert > colors. In addition, if they select wide margins, they'll need to do > less panning while they read if they use a zoom. > > On an iPad, if you sync bookmarks and configure your settings for > Safari to set the switch for "Always Show Bookmarks Bar" to "on", you > can flick to this bookmark and double tap it to apply the javascript. > > HTH. Perhaps a low-vison user can try out the plug-in and report > back. My own experience from last year is that both the plug in and > the newer bookmarklet worked considerably less well than the > bookmarklet I listed above. There were similar complaints from users > on the TeleRead pages about the degraded performance of the > Readabllity plug in and newer bookmarklet after Readability tried to > market this as a paid service, so I don't think I was alone in this > conclusion. See comments in "RIP, old Readability bookmarklet; I will > miss you" February 26, 2011 at: > http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/rip-old-readability-bookmarklet-i-will-miss-you/ > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Nov 21, 11:33 am, Stacey Robinson <stacey...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> Has anyone ever heard of this safari plug in. Read ability. >> It's supposed to make web pages easier to read. >> Someone mentioned it on mainmenu. >> How do I find plug ins for safari and install them? >> Thanks, > > -- > 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. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- 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. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
