A website, arc90 lab, offers an amazing tool, Readability, that makes web sites easier to use. Officially an experiment, Readability is a bookmarklet that strips away clutter and reformats the main content of a website so that it is easy to read.
Readability is a browser bookmarklet (sort of like a bookmark on steroids). You can install Readability by visiting the Readability setup page:
Readability works with most major modern browsers and has been tested on many news sites and blogs. It isn’t 100% effective but works surprisingly well.
Below you can see a standard view of an article on the New Your Times’ website:
Before
Using the Readability setting for terminal style (green background with white text), extra large font and narrow margins, the article is transformed in a single click on a bookmark to the following:
After
It is simple to set up. There are multiple choices for style, font size and margin width. Once you pick your settings, you cimply drag a button onto your bookmarks and you are good to go. Here is short video demostration:
I use it with the NoSquint extension on Firefox to enlarge the text a bit further, but I love the simple presentation and the easy to read color scheme. I bet it even works well for screen readers as it strips out unnecessary content.
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