Hello all, I've become rather fond of web surfing on the mac and on my i-devices, because of one lovely feature built in to Safari known as the "reader". What this enables one to do is to read the text of an article without being interrupted by unwanted junk, such as google ads, twitter and face-book frames, etc. I understand that JAWS has a feature which, if one takes the time, can be used to hide certain website elements, such that they will not be read out to you as you peruse a given site. I don't own JAWS, and I'm not interested in a screen reader war. But I will say that, while this reader feature is not perfect and is not always available, it makes reading articles a whole lot more efficient, not to mention pleasant. I believe the feature is part of Safari, not part of VoiceOver screen reader. So I wonder if there is some equivalent that is part of a web browser that works well with Window Eyes. I admit that this problem is particularly irritating when browsing non-English sites, where the speech synthesizer attempts to read those annoying interjections, ads, unwanted frames etc, in totally unintelligible speech. But even if that problem is solvable, it would be awfully nice to just envoke read to end and hear the entire text of the article uninterrupted by a bunch of extraneous garbage.
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