Hello Adrian, You might want to try pressing Alt V followed by R. This should turn on and off the reader view. I have a CTRL Alt R shortcut key assigned to a Remote Incident Manager program and so when in Firefox I just use the view menu.
For anyone interested in getting reader view to work in Chrome, it works quite well but needs some setting up. Here are some steps to follow for anyone wanting to use the reader view feature in Chrome: 1. Locate your shortcut for opening Chrome, whether it's on your taskbar, desktop or within the Start menu. Right-click it or use the application key and open Properties from the contextual menu. 2. Tab until focus is in the Target edit box. the file path for the Chrome application is shown in this field. 3. Add a space after the path text and then the following: --enable-dom-distiller 4. Tab to the Apply button and use spacebar or click Apply with the mouse. 5. Close down all instances of Chrome. Icons in the system tray such as Hangouts or Google Now will need to be closed. 6. Test out the Distill mode by opening Chrome from the shortcut you edited. Go to a page containing an article. Use the Alt key and up or down arrow to the “Distill page” menu item and press enter key. If using the mouse click the icon with three lines in the top right-hand corner and choose Distill page. To go out of Distill mode you can use Alt with left arrow key. This will load the page again in the usual manner. Take care. Brian Lee brianl...@charter.net -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: April 11, 2018 2:11 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view Thanks. I followed your suggestion, but reader view is still not working for me. control-alt-r does cause JAWS to pause, after which it sometimes resumes reading, sometimes not. But when it resumes, it reads the ads, etc. I hate to clutter the list with this problem. Thanks also to Mike B for the notes on the reader view extension. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Cristóbal Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 4:56 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view Even after invoking reader mode, you still have to navigate to the actual article. Heading, next block of text that isn't a link, etc. You're not going to be placed at the start of the article or whatever it is you're trying to read. I just finished reading an article in the New York Times in reader mode and it's working fine for me. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 1:17 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view Jim, I also have a subscription to the New York times. Like you, I press alt-control-r. Then I press the JAWS command for "say all." Nothing happens. Any hints? -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Jim Pursley Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 3:06 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view I have no problem using reader to read New York Times, Washington Post and Financial Times articles. Maybe that's because I maintain a subscription to each of them. All 3 have varieties of pay walls. By the way , I access reader with alt/control/r. Alt/control/f does not activate for me. As I recall, the short cut key alt/control/r is listed next to the reader view option in the Firefox top line menu. On 4/11/2018 1:28 PM, Cristóbal wrote: > Don't know what to tell you. I use it all the time when reading articles in > the New York Times. > Control plus alt plus R is probably my most used Firefox command. I use > flexible web a lot less because of this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] > On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 9:25 AM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view > > The New York Times comes to mind right away as a publication where reading > view doesn't work, and I do have the full articles open. I'll try different > websites as I encounter them. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On > Behalf Of Jim Pursley > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 9:14 AM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view > > It does seem strange to me taht the reader sometimesfails to read an article > for me, though I can download the text and read it in the published format. > The Economist is the only publisher I've encountered which reader does not > read. Adrian, what are some publications which don't format in reader for > you? Maybe there is a common thread, like a hard pay wall. For sure, reader > does not read truncated articles (continued,read more, etc.) for the most > part. It usually in my experience requires a full article for it to open. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On >> Behalf Of Dennis Long >> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 5:25 AM >> To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view >> >> Reader view will work on almost any article. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] >> On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt >> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 3:30 PM >> To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Firefox reader view >> >> Hi, Jim. In your reply to a separate query, you mention the Firefox key >> combo control-alt-r, which I know you've done in the past. However, I can't >> find my notes on that thread. Is this Firefox's "reader view"? I've looked >> online, but the instructions don't seem to work for me. Also, I see an >> alternative key sequence of alt, v, r, but this doesn’t work either. >> >> Would you explain reader view or point to an explanation, and maybe give a >> link to a page where it works? >> >> Here's the webpage of instructions that I found: >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free >> - >> web-pages >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On >> Behalf Of Jim Pursley >> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2018 6:02 PM >> To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Opening a second window in Firefox >> >> I'm not much help here as I don't open new Firefox tabs. 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