Reading and accessibility
Reader view, dark page and more
Change how a page looks when it’s hard to read. Show just the article, darken it or enlarge the text. Most modes are remembered for each site.
Commands
- Reader View
- Just the article, without the clutter around it
- Dark Page
- Turn a bright page dark, with images left as they are
- Large Text
- Make all the text on the page bigger
- Improve Typography
- Comfortable text size, line spacing and line length
- Keep Content
- Hide menus and sidebars but keep the site’s own look
- Text-Only Mode
- Hide images and video
- High Contrast
- White text on black, with yellow links
- Sepia Mode
- A warm, paper-like tint
- Monochrome
- Show the page in shades of gray
- Enhanced Focus Indicators
- A bright outline around whatever has keyboard focus
Some pages are hard on the eyes. Tiny gray text, a glaring white background late at night, an article squeezed between ads and menus. These modes change how the page in front of you looks, without touching anything on the site itself.
Turn a mode on or off
Open the palette, search for the mode, and press Enter. Run the same command again to turn it off. Modes that are on show an “Active” label in the list.
The modes
| Mode | What it does |
|---|---|
| Reader View | Shows just the article in a clean view over the page |
| Keep Content | Hides menus, headers, footers, sidebars and pop-up bars, keeping the site’s styling |
| Text-Only Mode | Hides images and video and flattens backgrounds |
| Dark Page | Inverts the colors so a light page turns dark, leaving images as they are |
| High Contrast | White text on black, with yellow links |
| Large Text | Makes text one and a half times its size |
| Sepia Mode | Adds a warm sepia tint |
| Monochrome | Shows everything in grayscale |
| Improve Typography | Sets readable text size, line height and width |
| Enhanced Focus Indicators | Draws a bright orange outline around the focused link or button |
If Reader View can’t find an article on the page, a message tells you so and the page stays as it was.
Remembered for each site
Turn on Dark Page for a site and it’s there the next time you visit, applied as the page loads, before you even open the palette. The same goes for every mode except Reader View and Keep Content, which last for the page you’re on. A mode that came back on by itself shows an “Auto” label. Other sites stay just as they were.
See and undo what’s on
When anything is on, a small label next to the search box says how many changes are active here, and an Active Page Changes… row sits at the top of the list. Open it to turn each one off with a single row. When two or more are on, Clear This Site’s Changes turns them all off at once.
Site Settings… lists every site where you’ve saved a mode and lets you remove them one at a time. It includes the reading aids from Dyslexia-friendly reading and color vision, which are remembered the same way.