[lbo-talk] Reading busy or poorly designed sites

[Carrol Cox]

The problem is not reading the text after I find it (or after I separate 
it from sidebars. We experimented with those programs when you mentioned 
them, and they pretty much duplicated the functions of ZoomText. There 
are  in fact many ways of getting text large enough and clear enough to 
read. I haven't yet found a way to control the screen, or to find 
objects (buttons, etc) hidden off the screen. I succeeded earlier today 
on one blog, but it's always iffy. And as with my preceding post, I'm 
having to write this with most of what I'm writing invisible. Only in a 
Word file can I avoid that problem. I tried a new key board recently 
(one specially made for ZoomText, and you may have noticed the many 
typos. I had to go back to my ancient Northgate keyboard. I still have 
to be careful, but I've been a good touch typist for decades, and in 
another week or so should be again comfortable with this keyboard and 
the typos should go down close to zero. If I pause, however, when not 
using Word, it can be a fucking mess to find out where I was! Expanded 
screens just jump. Even one's own.

Carrol

On 7/16/2011 9:36 PM, // ravi wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2011, at 10:27 PM, // ravi wrote:
>>
>> I am not sure why Readability and/or Instapaper aren’t helping you. For instance, here’s the somewhat poorly designed pink-scare blog page that you just wrote about:
>>
>> http://cl.ly/041o0Z1G1v020S1T2j0W
>>
>> And here it is after one click on a Readability button in my browser:
>>
>> http://cl.ly/1U160L1F3q3F223F2N1Q
>>
>> And here is the same Readability rendered page with the font size jacked up two sizes:
>>
>> http://cl.ly/45273O3w2v3I212j310v
>>
>
> And here’s the direct link to the Readability rendered version of the blog post:
>
> http://www.readability.com/articles/zy69xqyw
>
> 	—ravi
>
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