I often find the text on web pages too small for me. This is especially the case early and late in the day, and when I’m tired.
Of course, there are several remedies: use the web browser’s View menu to zoom in or enlarge the text size, use Command + (⌘ +) on a Mac, or use any controls the web page itself gives you.
Another method I’ve enjoyed lately is the Readability bookmarklet, since it also takes away the ‘stuff’ from around the edges:
READABILITY is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
Here’s a regular page, typical of many I visit. Note the tiny text, and on the right an ad and a list of other pages on the site. On many websites those ads are flashing and quite intrusive.
After clicking the Readability bookmarklet all the extraneous junk has been stripped away, and the text is extra large, and superbly easy to read.
I’ve found some pages where Readability just doesn’t work. Generally those pages are constructed in some ‘tricky’ way. On most pages though it does a great job.
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thanks for these hints – what a difference they make for these tired eyes.
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