Wondered if any one has had issues with chrome where continues to download a file over and over again even after the file or program has been downloaded successfully?

This continues to happen after downloaded the latest version of CCleaner and have uninstalled and reinstalled chrome thinning would fix the problem or issue and hasn’t.

Thanks.

Hi, I change the chrome setting to ask me where to save a file it doesn’t hold the change when exiting the browser how do I fix this?

Hi Jim,

 

Here you go:

From: David Moore
Hi all.
I will paste, right here in this message, the same kind of text tutorial on Using the Microsoft Edge Browser.
It will be laid out just like the Chrome tutorial.
I take you, step by step, through how to set up Edge, and I take you through all settings and tell you how to customise Edge to your liking.
Tutorial for Using Microsoft Edge By David Moore
I am using the latest public build of Windows 10 Creators update.
If you are using anything different than that, you might get different results.
When you can press spacebar or enter, I will list them both.
If I only list enter, that means that you can only use enter.
If I only list Spacebar, that means that you can only press spacebar to toggle something, for example.
I have a list of all key commands for Edge at the end of this tutorial. Through the tutorial, I will point out many key commands as well, as I go.

 

Section Number One
Opening the Edge Browser:
Press the Windows key or CTRL+Escape, to open the start area. Next, type Edge and enter when Narrator announces it.
Press enter, and the Edge browser should open.

 

Section Number Two
Opening the Freedom Scientific Web Site:
I pressed CTRL+L (alt+D works as well) and entered:
www.freedomscientific.com
That is the site for Freedom Scientific.
The web site came up very quickly.
I can use all navigation keys, like H for heading, C for Combo Box, E for edit area, , for example, just like other browsers, and they all work.
Section Three
Pressing alt+X to get a large Virticle Menu:
Now, I will now press ALT+X to open the settings and more menu! This is to the right of the address bar, but Alt+X opens this same menu. We have a lot
in this virticle menu.a large virticle menu of choices. When I down arrow, I here the following:
New Window (CTRL+N), New InPrivate Window (CTRL+SHIFT+P), Zoom out, Zoom in, Cast media to device, Find on page, Print, Pin this page to Start, F12 Developer
Tools, Open with Internet Explorer, Send feedback, Extensions, What's new and Tips, and finally, Settings. Extensions and Settings are the main two choices
we are interested in with this menu. Key commands will do the rest.
Next, I will talk about settings.
Section Four:
Navigating settings and Advance settings:
Press alt+X again, and up arrow once to settings, because that is the last choice.
Press enter on settings.
You will hear:
Choose a Theme light.
Don't worry about that!
Tab once, and you will hear:
Open Microsoft Edge with a page or set of pages combo box.
This is how you choose how you want Microsoft Edge to open.
I have mine set to a specific page or pages.
Now, Tab again, and you have an edit field where you can type in your pages that you want opened When Microsoft Edge is launched.
I just entered:
www.google.com
Therefore, when I start Edge, the Google home page opens for me.
Tabbing again:
I hear delete button, where you can press spacebar or enter to delete your page or pages.
Tabbing again, I hear Add Button, where you can press spacebar or enter and add another page that you want to open when Edge is started.
Tabbing again, I hear:
Open new tabs with combo box.
I have this set to a blank page.
Tab again, and you will hear:
Import from another browser button.
You can press spacebar or enter here to import all favorites and settings from other browsers you use, like IE 11 or Chrome, or Firefox.
Tab again, and you will hear:
Show the favorites bar toggle.
I have this unchecked, because I do not want everyone to see my favorites on a bar right on the Edge Window. Press spacebar to check or uncheck..
Tab again, and you hear:
Choose what to clear.
If you press spacebar on this, you can tab and check or uncheck what is cleared when you delete your history. You can also choose whether this should be
cleared every time you close the Edge browser.
Tab, and you will either hear Account Settings or your MSA account link, depending on your account setting.
Tabbing again, I hear:
Sync your favorites and reading list unchecked.
 You definitely want to check this by pressing spacebar, so all of your Edge data will be synced between all of your devices. If you do not want this,
then uncheck it with spacebar.
Tab again, and you hear:
Sync device settings link.
Tab again, and you hear:
View Advanced settings button.
This is important, and I will cover that in a bit.
Tab again, and you hear:
Terms of use link.
Tab again, and you hear:
Privacy statement link.
Tab again, and you hear:
Pin this pane button.
Tab again, and you hear:
Change my default button.
We are back to the beginning of settings. Now, let us go through the advanced settings.
Next, press Alt+X, and up arrow once to settings, and press enter. Now, Shift tab to Advanced settings, since that was almost at the end of what we tabbed
through. Go ahead and enter on the advanced settings. There is a lot you can customise here.  Let’s tab through this menu.
Press enter on Advanced Settings, and you hear:
Show the home button toggle.
I have this pressed, by using spacebar, because I want my home page to show in the Edge Window!
Tab again, and you hear:
A specific page collapsed. This is what I want.
Tab again, and there is an edit field to put the URL of what you want your home page to be.
I want my home page to be the same page is my start page, so I just enter:
www.google.com
to be my home page.
Now:
www.google.com
is my start page and my home page.
To go back to your home page from anywhere, just press:
Alt+Home
Tab again, and you hear:
Save Button.
Press spacebar or enter on this to save your home page.
You now hear:
block pop-ups toggle.
I have mine unchecked, by using the spacebar, because I want pages to come up, that are considered pop-ups.
However, to keep safe, you should probably have that checked, so Edge will indeed block pop-ups.
This is up to you.
Tab again, and you hear:
Use Adobe Flash Player.
I have this checked, with the spacebar, because a lot of web sites still need Adobe flash to play videos and the like.
Tab again, and you hear:
Open sites in apps.
I have this checked with spacebar.
Tab again, and you hear:
Choose which sites open in apps button.
I have this checked. Next, Choose which sites open in apps.  This will launch the Settings app where you can customize whether to open certain web site
in an app or in the browser.
Tab again, and you hear:
Change button.
I hear change button, you can use this to change where to save downloaded files to.
Tab again, and you hear:
Ask me what to do with each download toggle.
I have that checked, with spacebar, because when I download something, I want it to ask me if I want to save or open and so on.
Tab again, and you hear:
Open Proxy settings button.
I left this alone.
Tab again, and you hear:
Manage button.
I left this alone.
Tab again, and you hear:
Learn more link.
Tab again, and you hear:
Offer to save passwords toggle.
I checked this, with spacebar, so I can have a password saved if I want.
Tab again, and you hear:
Manage Passwords button.
I left this alone.
Tab again, and you hear:
Save form entries toggle.
I have this checked with spacebar.
Tab again, and you hear:
Send do not track requests toggle.
I have this unchecked with spacebar.
Tab again, and you hear:
Have Cortana assist me in Microsoft Edge.
I have mine turnned on with spacebar. If you want this off, just press spacebar until you hear unchecked or off. sometimes, it will say on or off, or,
it will say checked or unchecked. You will hear both ways spoken, but they are the same.
Tab again, and you hear:
Change Search Engine button:
This is important, because I pressed space bar or enter on that, and it was a combo box that was set on Bing. Keep that if you want, but I changed mine
to Google.
I like Google to do my searches rather than Bing.
When you are done with this, Tab and hear will hear:
Back button.
Press space on that, to go back to the advanced settings that we are in.
The back button shows up a lot in Edge, so you can just go back to where you were.
Tab again, and you hear:
Show search and site suggestions as I type toggle.
I used spacebar to uncheck that, because I do not like suggestions to populate as I type in the address bar.
Tab again, and you hear:
Clear Bing search history link.
I did nothing with that.
Tab again, and you hear:
Optimize Taskbar web search results for screen readers.
Mine is check; to uncheck, just use spacebar.
Tab again, and you hear:
Don't block cookies combo box collapsed.
I left that alone.
Tab again, and you hear:
Let sites save protected media licenses on my device.
This is checked.
Tab again, and you hear:
Use page prodiction to speed up websites.
I have this check. To uncheck, just use spacebar, but you want this checked.
Tab again, and you hear:
Help protect me from malicious sites and downloads with Windows Defender Smartscreen toggle.
I kept this checked.
Tab again, and you hear:
Pin this Pane button.
Tab again, and you hear:
Back button.
Guess what this is for.
Entering on this takes you back to just plain old settings.
Remember, we entered on Advanced settings within settings.
Pressing spacebar or enter on this back button, takes you back to settings where we chose our start page and all of that.
Therefore, we are all done with Settings.
Look at what you know already, just by pressing Alt+X, up arrow once to settings, and press enter, tab through settings, enter on advanced settings, tab
through those settings, and press enter on the back button to get you back to settings, and just press escape twice to get out of settings, and you are
back on the Freedom Scientific web site we started out with.
Important:
You must press escape twice to get out of settings and back on to the Freedom Scientific web site.

 

Section Five
Getting to, and navigating the Hub.
Now, I will show you how to get to the Hub.  The Hub is located just after the address bar area.  It has 5 tabs: Favorites, Reading list, Books, History
and Downloads. However, instead of often coming here, we will activate three of these tabs with key commands right from your web site.
Now, this is where your starting place will be a lot in Edge:
Press alt+D or CTRL+L to get to the address bar or whatever it is called in Edge LOL!
Important, we will get to everything else by tabbing or shift tabbing from the address bar. However, you won't need to do this often, because we can activate
this stuff by key commands right from the Web site. The address bar is your starting place, so you can tab to get to everything else that we will talk
about in Edge. If you get on that address bar, you are set to get to everything else that is on top of the Edge Window.
So now, from the Freedom Scientific web site:
Press Alt+D or CTRL+L
You should hear the URL of the Freedom Scientific web site.
You are on the address bar, our starting place.
Tab once, and you hear:
Add to favorites or reading list button.
If you press enter here, you will save the Freedom Scientific web site that we are on in your favorites. However, you can do this by just pressing CTRL+D
from the web site. Just press enter, and tab to save and press enter. This is how you will save a web site in your favorites.
Tab again, and you hear:
Hub ( Favorites, Reading List, Books, History, and Downloads toggle button not pressed.
Now, just tab a few times to get back to the web site. That is all you need to do from up here. You can also press F6 to get from this upper area back
to the web site.
To get back to the Hub, press Ctrl + I to open the first tab in the Hub, the Favorites tab.
You will hear Narrator announce Hub, Favorites window, tab control, Favorite tab selected 1 of 5.
Here we are in our favorites.  I can tab twice to the list of favorites then arrow up and down through my favorites.
If I Shift+Tab twice, I am back on the five tabs. I can navigate these tabs, by just pressing the right and left arrow keys. Press right arrow, and you
will hear the other four tabs, Reading list, Books, History, and Downloads.
When you right arrow to the Books tab, Tab from here, and I hear Get Books button, Sign in button, and Shop for Books button. This is exciting.
The fourth tab is the History tab, you can press Ctrl + H to get to it directly.
I can delete my history, and look at my history here.
The 5th and last tab, is my Downloads tab.  Open it by pressing Ctrl + J.  Here is where you come to view your downloads, and check on the status of a
download in progress.
So, that is it for the HUB button.
I pressed Esc to get out of Hub. The only two tabs that there are not key commands to go to them are the Books and Reading list, which you will not use
that much anyway.
I just want you to see that you can press right and left arrow keys on the tabs, but you can get to those tabs with one of the three key commands:
CTRL+I for the Favorites tab, CTRL+H, for the History Tab, and CTRL+J for the downloads tab.
We are done with using the Hub!

 

Section Six:
Key commands for using Microsoft Edge:
Here are many key commands to navigate and work with Edge. Many of these are the same as in other browsers.
Microsoft Edge keyboard shortcuts
table with 2 columns and 40 rows
Press this key
To do this
Ctrl + D
Add current site to favorites or reading list
Ctrl + I
Open favorites pane
Ctrl + J
Open downloads pane
Ctrl + H
Open history pane
Ctrl + P
Print the current page
Ctrl + F
Find on page
Alt + C
Open Cortana while you are in Edge!
Ctrl + Shift + R
Enter reading view
Ctrl + T
Open a new tab
Ctrl + Shift + T
Reopen the last closed tab
Ctrl + W or Ctrl + F4
Close the active tab
Ctrl + K
Duplicate tab
Ctrl + N
Open a new window
Ctrl + Shift + P
Open a new InPrivate Browsing window
Ctrl + Tab
Switch to the next tab
Ctrl + Shift + Tab
Switch to the previous tab
Ctrl + 1, 2, 3, and so on
Switch to a specific tab number
Ctrl + 9
Switch to the last tab
Ctrl + plus
Zoom in (25%)
Ctrl + minus
Zoom out (25%)
Ctrl + 0
Reset zoom level
Backspace or Alt + Left arrow
Go back to last web page
Alt + Right arrow
Go forward to next web page
F5 or Ctrl + R
Refresh the page
Escape
Stop loading the page
Ctrl + L or F4 or Alt + D
Select the address bar
Ctrl + Shift + L
Open address bar query in a new tab
Ctrl + E
Open a search query in the address bar
Ctrl + Enter
Add www. to the beginning and .com to the end of text typed in the address bar
Ctrl + click
Open link in a new tab
Ctrl + Shift + click
Open link in a new tab and switch to that tab
Alt + Shift + click
Open link in a new window
Ctrl + Shift +M
Start creating web notes
Ctrl + Alt + M
Copy selected content into a web note
F12
Open F12 Developer Tools
Ctrl + U
View source
F6
Toggle focus between webpage content and the address bar
F7
Turn caret browsing on for the active tab
Ctrl + Shift + Delete
Show controls to clear browsing data

 

Please give me your feed back, and how much you hear what I hear when tabbing and the like.
That is all for this tutorial.
David Moore

Take care.  Mike.  Go Rams!
Sent from my iBarstool.
Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement.  In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree.

----- Original Message -----

From: Jim Wohlgamuth

To: TechTalk@groups.io

Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2018 3:22 PM

Subject: [TechTalk] a request Please?

Hi there FOLKS!

I believe it was Joseph Hudson that posted it, but I need the tutorial on Edge again.  Wonder if someone might be able to post it for me again.  Thanks! de

<Wohlggie@...>

<KF8LT><Jim Wohlgamuth>.

Hi there FOLKS!

I believe it was Joseph Hudson that posted it, but I need the tutorial on Edge again.  Wonder if someone might be able to post it for me again.  Thanks! de

<Wohlggie@...>

<KF8LT><Jim Wohlgamuth>.

On Nov 1, 2018, at 5:22 PM, Jim Wohlgamuth <wohlggie@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there FOLKS!

I believe it was Joseph Hudson that posted it, but I need the tutorial on Edge again. Wonder if someone might be able to post it for me again. Thanks! de

<Wohlggie@gMail.com>

















<KF8LT><Jim Wohlgamuth>.

Hi DAVID!

I keep thinking about giving Edge a real try with Narrator, but am going to have to get up to speed on how to use it first.  But will do it soon<SMILE!>.

Have A Good ! de

<Wohlggie@...><KF8LT><Jim Wohlgamuth>.

Hi all!

JAWS 2019 works better in Edge, but Narrator in Windows 1809 works awesome in Edge.

I would say that Narrator in Edge is the fastest browsing experience there is right now!

JAWS 2019 will do what you need it to do in Edge, though, it is just more sluggish than Narrator.

Narrator in Windows 10 1809, is like arrowing through a document in edge, is works so well.

David Moore

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: Jim Wohlgamuth
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:39 AM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: [TechTalk] Jaws and Edge..?

 

        Hi there Folks!

Does the new version of Jaws 'Jaws 2019' work with Edge? If not, does anyone know if they ever intend to make it accessible with Edge? Thanks And Have A Good 1! de

<Wohlggie@...><Jim Wohlgamuth>.

 

Hi all!

JAWS 2019 works better in Edge, but Narrator in Windows 1809 works awesome in Edge.

I would say that Narrator in Edge is the fastest browsing experience there is right now!

JAWS 2019 will do what you need it to do in Edge, though, it is just more sluggish than Narrator.

Narrator in Windows 10 1809, is like arrowing through a document in edge, is works so well.

David Moore

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: Jim Wohlgamuth
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:39 AM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: [TechTalk] Jaws and Edge..?

 

        Hi there Folks!

Does the new version of Jaws 'Jaws 2019' work with Edge? If not, does anyone know if they ever intend to make it accessible with Edge? Thanks And Have A Good 1! de

<Wohlggie@...><Jim Wohlgamuth>.

 

Dear Shelly & List:

 

Not sure how many years ago you looked into court reporting. Friend of mine graduated from Stenotype Academy, New York City several years ago.

 

She used her laptop, running a program called Premier Power at first, then Case Catalyst, both from Stenograph Corp., Mt. Prospect, IL.

 

The laptop connected to her steno machine. She input in steno, if the judge asks for a transcript, she pushed a key on the laptop, went to lunch, returning to the courtroom with a nicely transcribed transcript ready to print. Press the print button, the high-speed laser printer started whirring away, printing the last page a few minutes later, she handed the stack of transcript to the Judge.

 

She is also totally blind! Court reporters used to read back testimony from the paper log tape produced by their steno keyboard, however, since court reporting went computer, can read back their notes in steno from their laptop or if they are sighted, the keyboard log tape.

 

If you have no repetitive stress syndrome in your hands & wrists, Stenographic Court Reporting can pay handsomely, although you own your steno keyboard, laptop, Braille Display, all related cables and your laser printer. If you print in a courthouse, you would likely print on one of their printers, paying the court for the use of their printer.

 

One print page of transcript is 25 x 64-character lines. One other blind court reporter told me court reporters utterly detest typing, especially proofreading/spelling correction.

 

The stenotype programs are not cheap, however are very comprehensive in their offerings.

 

One time, my friend found her Braille display, laptop & steno keyboard would just would not work. Stenograph Tech Support told her they gave up trying to make the stuff work. She asked me what to do?

 

I three-wayed our phone call to Stenograph which was closed. Dialed by name, found the extension of the President.

 

Friend left him a short, to the point, voicemail with her name & phone number.

 

Next morning, same man in tech support who had given up on making her stuff work, telephoned at 08:30 Eastern Time to say they would pay to ship her laptop, Braille display, steno keyboard with all documentation, Fed Ex Overnight due to arrive by 10:30 AM the next morning in Mt. Prospect, IL. Using this fast service is almost unheard of in the US.

 

They needed about a month to do it, however, were able to modify Premier Power to work with her equipment. The man in Tech Support had obviously received a call from the President saying we do not give up on clients with special needs.

 

On Graduation Day from Stenotype in NYC, she asks me what to do.

 

I said in addition to her thank you voice mail to the President. Of Stenograph she left when they got everything working, to write him a personal thank you letter,, including her graduation photos. She asked if she should write the letter in steno. I said yes. If the President is not a court reporter, he will have no difficulty finding one to transcribe her letter. All their sales reps are qualified steno court reporters!!

 

She was featured in an article in Stenograph’s monthly newsletter to clients, prospects etc.

 

However, she did not heed my advice to provide the story with photos, to The Forward, a NYC Daily newspaper published in Yiddish & English! The friend is Jewish. I told her The Forward has many moms and grandmothers who have sons & daughters who are lawyers, as well as County, State and Federal Judges who would just love to give a nice, 4 ft. 10-inch-tall Jewish woman a job in their courtroom! At least if they heed their mom or grandmother’s advice!

 

Told her that some of these moms/grandmothers probably have adult kids who have been Elevated to the Bench of the U. S. Supreme Court, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. They have connections!

These moms/grandmothers have more connections than Bell Telephone!

National Telecommuting Institute claimed to be the Almighty’s Personal Gift to the handicapped on its web site & literature.

 

However, when you looked at the jobs they had available to the visually impaired, they only offered IRS work at home tax forms call takers to people who used a screen enlarger at no more than 2X magnification. This is despite the IRS having many totally blind forms request agents successfully employed directly by them! Telecommuting Institute claimed their limit was due to the speed the agents had to type at.

 

The other job was Medical Transcription. There can be good money in this. However, as a friend told me, people working from home were overworked to death by the large, US employers they were employed by.

Firms would demand weekend rotations and announce mandatory OT by e-mail to staff. While some US states may permit employers to require OT or have the employees dismissed, here in Ontario, they may not require an employee to work more than 48 hours per week or whatever shift they have agreed to work if different. We still have labor laws with teeth, as well as statutes and trials division judges to adjudicate them.

 

She said the firm offered OK medical, dental & prescription coverage but not stellar. They said people leaving the firm could use their COBRAA health benefits for ongoing care. Friend asked what this was, firm advised it was only for employees in the US.

 

Was like the firm thought all its employees were in USA, forgot they had a dozen or so in Ontario.

 

The transcription firms guarantee client hospitals 24-hour delivery on dictation,  otherwise firm pays substantial late fees for each delayed item. This is why they overwork the staff. They do not wish to pay late fees.

 

She found the firms, she worked for a few, habitually shipped work computers UPS which had money owing for customs upon receipt by her. Firms would cut her a reimbursement cheque sending it by UPS, however sometimes she had to scramble to pay the money to UPSS first.

 

In short, she found working from home more stressful than working in an office. She described the working conditions as an electronic sweatshop. Firm had her typing speed monitored by her supervisor, receiving a phone call if she stopped typing for more than a few seconds. The doctors all had accents, sometimes Southern, sometimes from India or Pakistani china. The worst were doctors who dictated while chewing gum.

In summary,, National Telecommuting Institute promised much, however, when you

read the fine print, offered little to persons with serious disabilities.

 

The only handicapped persons they placed were fairly easy to place, no quadrapleagic, deaf-blind, multi-handicapped persons. The rates they charged employers for worker training were on the ridiculous side of outrageous. /Employers paid them as all training establishments charged the same. Funny how that happens.

Brian Lingard

 

 

I am using the extension you recommend.  I am going into keyboard short cuts under extensions.

Dennis,

Could you be a bit more specific with your question?

Which reader mode are you referring to? The built-in reader or an extension? Can you describe which method you are using to set up a hotkey?

How do I save the keyboard I type alt r for the reader it doesn’t hold.

 

From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:54 AM
To: main@TechTalk.groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] reader mode in Chrome

 

Dennis,

There is, technically, a reader mode built into Chrome but using it is a bit clunky.

In order to activate it you have to go into the properties dialog for the Chrome shortcut and add a command line argument at the end of the first edit field.

If Google Chrome is on your desktop, point to it and press alt-enter to open the properties dialog. At the end of the first edit field containing the path where Chrome is located add

--enable-dom-distiller

and press enter.

As an example, my edit field reads

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --enable-dom-distiller

Don't change the path to match mine in case your copy of Chrome is located in a different folder. The above is just an example of how the edit field should read.

In order to get to the Reader view, press alt-F, from within Chrome, for the Chrome menu.

Arrow down and you'll find a Distill Page option, which opens the page in Chrome's reader view.

The above method is, in my opinion, unintuitive and inefficient.

What I've resorted to is the Mercury Reader Chrome extension from the Chrome store. Once you've installed this extension and, presumably, other ones which are similar, you can go into the extension's settings and set up a hotkey to invoke the reader extension. For Mercury, I've set up ctrl-R to render the page in the Mercury reader view.

Hope that helps.

 

David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com

On 11/1/2018 12:55 AM, Dennis L wrote:

Hi, is there a reader mode in chrome?  If not what are some good extensions that will do the job?

 

Dennis,

Could you be a bit more specific with your question?

Which reader mode are you referring to? The built-in reader or an extension? Can you describe which method you are using to set up a hotkey?

How do I save the keyboard I type alt r for the reader it doesn’t hold.

 

From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:54 AM
To: main@TechTalk.groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] reader mode in Chrome

 

Dennis,

There is, technically, a reader mode built into Chrome but using it is a bit clunky.

In order to activate it you have to go into the properties dialog for the Chrome shortcut and add a command line argument at the end of the first edit field.

If Google Chrome is on your desktop, point to it and press alt-enter to open the properties dialog. At the end of the first edit field containing the path where Chrome is located add

--enable-dom-distiller

and press enter.

As an example, my edit field reads

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --enable-dom-distiller

Don't change the path to match mine in case your copy of Chrome is located in a different folder. The above is just an example of how the edit field should read.

In order to get to the Reader view, press alt-F, from within Chrome, for the Chrome menu.

Arrow down and you'll find a Distill Page option, which opens the page in Chrome's reader view.

The above method is, in my opinion, unintuitive and inefficient.

What I've resorted to is the Mercury Reader Chrome extension from the Chrome store. Once you've installed this extension and, presumably, other ones which are similar, you can go into the extension's settings and set up a hotkey to invoke the reader extension. For Mercury, I've set up ctrl-R to render the page in the Mercury reader view.

Hope that helps.

 

David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com

On 11/1/2018 12:55 AM, Dennis L wrote:

Hi, is there a reader mode in chrome?  If not what are some good extensions that will do the job?

 

How do I save the keyboard I type alt r for the reader it doesn’t hold.

 

From: main@TechTalk.groups.io [mailto:main@TechTalk.groups.io] On Behalf Of David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:54 AM
To: main@TechTalk.groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] reader mode in Chrome

 

Dennis,

There is, technically, a reader mode built into Chrome but using it is a bit clunky.

In order to activate it you have to go into the properties dialog for the Chrome shortcut and add a command line argument at the end of the first edit field.

If Google Chrome is on your desktop, point to it and press alt-enter to open the properties dialog. At the end of the first edit field containing the path where Chrome is located add

--enable-dom-distiller

and press enter.

As an example, my edit field reads

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --enable-dom-distiller

Don't change the path to match mine in case your copy of Chrome is located in a different folder. The above is just an example of how the edit field should read.

In order to get to the Reader view, press alt-F, from within Chrome, for the Chrome menu.

Arrow down and you'll find a Distill Page option, which opens the page in Chrome's reader view.

The above method is, in my opinion, unintuitive and inefficient.

What I've resorted to is the Mercury Reader Chrome extension from the Chrome store. Once you've installed this extension and, presumably, other ones which are similar, you can go into the extension's settings and set up a hotkey to invoke the reader extension. For Mercury, I've set up ctrl-R to render the page in the Mercury reader view.

Hope that helps.

 

David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com

On 11/1/2018 12:55 AM, Dennis L wrote:

Hi, is there a reader mode in chrome?  If not what are some good extensions that will do the job?