VOICEOVER

[paieye]

I am partially-sighted and am unable to read text rendered in grey-on-white or pale-colour-on-white, nowadays considered so. stylish by webpage-designers. However, I am told that there is a feature in OSX that enables one to render such text as spoken content, but am not precisely sure how to achieve that result. I should be most grateful if. some kind person could give me some very, very simple instructions !

 

[bogdanw]

Try Reader view in Safari (shortcut ⇧⌘R)
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/hide-ads-when-reading-sfri32632/mac

Use VoiceOver to read text on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/read-text-vo2706/mac

Use VoiceOver to browse webpages on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/browse-webpages-vo27974/mac

 

[paieye]

Thank you, but I am not having much luck with those. The 1st one, when I launch Safari, find a webpage, and click the shortcut, simply shows the title of the page in very large font, but with not body text. The 2nd and 3rd are again relying on pale-blue-text-on-white, and using expressions that I do not recognise, such as VO-A. I really need simple step-by-step instructions, but realilse that I may be. asking too much !

 

[bogdanw]

All you have to do is Turn VoiceOver on and you will be guided how to use it.
"Press Command-F5. If VoiceOver is on, pressing the keys turns it off."
https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/turn-voiceover-on-or-off-vo2682/10/mac/12.0

 

[paieye]

Thank you, that looks promising, I shall report back