How to Use Safari’s Reader Mode
A useful feature for making it easier to read webpages
The iPad is a great device for reading. If you have a Retina display the text in e-books is crisp, clear and very easy to read. Web browsing and looking at articles online can lead to another difficulty, that of clutter. In addition to the text you are trying to read, very often you have to contend with things like adverts and menu items. This can be very distracting, especially if you have a visual impairment or a reading difficulty like dyslexia.
Fortunately, Safari has a feature called Reader Mode. This removes most of the distractions and essentially turns the website into a plain page with just the text and any images or videos that accompany it.
To activate Reader Mode follow these steps:
1 Open up Safari
2 Go to a website with an article you want to read (e.g. www.innovatemyschool.com)
3 Find the icon at the left hand side of the address bar that looks like a page of text. Please note that only some websites have a Reader Mode available.
4 Click on this icon and you are immediately presented with a page that is uncluttered and much easier to read.
5 You can revert back to the original layout at any time by simply tapping this icon again.
Here is an article I did for Innovate My School. The first copy shows the original version while the second demonstrates what it looks like with the Reader Mode enabled.
Before:
After:
As you can see it makes a big difference to the readability of the article.
Try it out for yourself and see what you think.
Peter
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