Making Your Screen More Readable

Today’s computer tip of the day about making your screen more readable.

But it already is, you say? Sure. But there are several ways to really enhance the readability.

Making Your Screen More Readable

Readability Features

First, you might be seeing or hearing a lot more on your screen than just the text you’re trying to read. If you’re trying to read a news story, for example, you might see a video on another news story as part of the screen. Yes, you can mute the video. But some people find it distracting. Ads, whether banner notifications or videos, are also an issue for some people.

Enter readability. First, look at the right hand side of the bar where you enter URLs. Many pages will show a small icon that looks something like an open book.

Move your cursor over it. It will say “enter readability.”

Click on it.

It will immediately remove videos and banners from the page. The text will be the same, but the distracting elements will be gone. It looks more like, well, a book page.

Another method is to get a free app that will let you save anything you want to read. Instapaper and Read It Later are two apps that will let you do this and also have a readability function.

Size Text

Another issue with reading material on computer screens is the size of the font. If it’s too small and you’re reading a lot, it could cause eye strain.

Increasing the size of the online font is very simple. Just press the Control key and the + key at the same time. The font size will increase gradually every time the + key is depressed.

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