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From: Julie Adkins <[email protected]>
Date: July 25, 2012 3:08:20 PM CDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: [VICUG-L] Two websites that reformat web pages into simpler formats
Reply-To: Julie Adkins <[email protected]>
These are fantastic for low vision computer users who use screen magnification,
but I think can also make web browsing a little simpler for screen reader
users, too. I wrote the Readability instructions below for JAWS users. If you
are a sighted mouse user, just follow the instructions that appear on the
screen on the Readability web page.
If you are a mouse user, I love to put both Skweezer and Readability on the
Favorites bar, and the user can just quickly click on each one (first on
Skweezer to do a search or pull up a particular web page, and then on
Readability once they have opened a specific article to be read).
Website to use as a search engine (save it in your favorites) so all your
websites will be reformatted into a cleaner, linear format: www.skweezer.com.
By the way, if you have students who are Spanish speakers, it can be set to
Spanish!
Webpage that isolates the actual article you want to read, removing all the
links, images, etc. and puts it in one column: Go to www.readability.com and
press Enter on the “Install Now for free” link. Then you will tab to a link
that says Read Now, but do not open it. Instead, press the Application key and
then press F for Add to Favorites. It may tell you it is unsafe, in which case
you will have to press Y for yes to allow it. Now when you open an article you
want to read, open Read Now from your Favorites, and it will reformat it. It
may take a minute to convert it, so wait until you hear 100 percent. JAWS
should read the article automatically. It appears to be saying “main region
start” at the beginning of the text of the article. I got there quickly by
pressing N two times, but you could just let it start at the beginning and go
on down.
Sighted users would also want to click on the little button on the left side of
Readability (when it opens an article) that has a big A and little A on it to
try out the different fonts and background colors. If you use screen
magnification, you can reduce the column width so it won’t move back and forth
visually when you use the Zoomtext AppReader or DocReader.
Julie Adkins, MA, CVRT
Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Metrolina Association for the Blind
704 Louise Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28204
704-887-5121
www.mabnc.org
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