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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Fri, Oct 30 2015 11:00AM
Subject: "Reader Available" feature is Safari - exclusive?
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When using Safari with iOS, I have for long been turning on the reader
button placed before the address bar when a page loads and VoiceOver
announces "reader available".
Just helps me skip nav / ad content and get straight to the main content.
I suppose this helps many users with / without disabilities. It also
works on a Mac.
https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/WorkingWiththeReader/WorkingWiththeReader.html
This is not available with other browsers / on other platforms, right?

Thanks,
Sailesh Panchang

From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Fri, Oct 30 2015 11:39AM
Subject: Re: "Reader Available" feature is Safari - exclusive?
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FireFox has a Reader View button in the address bar and View menu for sites that support it, as does the EDGE browser. FireFox<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=reader%20view&platform=WINNT&appverA.0.2> and Chrome<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/reading%20view?hl=en-US&_category=extensions> also have various extensions that have similar functionality. There is also a site/service called Textise<http://www.textise.net/>; that transforms any page into text, it has a FireFox add on<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textise/>, plus a Bookmarklet<http://www.textise.net/Bookmarklet.aspx>; for other browsers and iOS<http://iosbookmarklets.com/tutorials/textise-bookmarklet-ipad/>;. A nice thing about Textise is it can keep you in text-only mode as you go from page to page, so you do not have to activate every time you go to a new site.





Joseph

From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Fri, Oct 30 2015 11:40AM
Subject: Re: "Reader Available" feature is Safari - exclusive?
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Readability is the one I used before Safari Reader came out. https://www.readability.com/apps

Anything that removes inaccessible, distracting content like ads is great for Accessibility. I'd also suggest you look into Adblock Extensions and iOS 9 Safari Content Blocker extensions to block ads which are never accessible anyway.

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Sailesh Panchang < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> When using Safari with iOS, I have for long been turning on the reader
> button placed before the address bar when a page loads and VoiceOver
> announces "reader available".
> Just helps me skip nav / ad content and get straight to the main content.
> I suppose this helps many users with / without disabilities. It also
> works on a Mac.
> https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/WorkingWiththeReader/WorkingWiththeReader.html
> This is not available with other browsers / on other platforms, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Sailesh Panchang
> > > >