Hover Bovver

Hover Bovver

Just made a change to the way that links behave when you hover over them. Long-time users will know that, by default, Textise previously displayed an underline on links when you hovered over them in the text-only output. In the interests of improved accessibilty,...

Can you hear me, Mother?

We’re trialling ReadSpeaker’s funky text-to-voice technology on Textised pages where the main content can be identified, like the BBC News Page. Why not give it a go and let us know what you think? [polldaddy poll=9365411] Search for: Recent Posts How to...
Subscriptions

Subscriptions

I’ve been making some changes to the way that Textise manages subscribers. Subscriptions are available to web masters who want to use Textise to power Text Only/Accessibility links on their pages. The rules for subscriptions are pretty simple, as laid out on the...

Extra texture!

I’ve made a couple of changes to Textise recently. The first one is the addition of optional textures. This feature allows you to view text-only content on a background of your choice. In the screenshot, we’re viewing a BBC news article in MV Boli font on...
Introducing the Textise Bookmarklet

Introducing the Textise Bookmarklet

Want to know the great thing about Firefox? It’s that you can write add-ons for it without messing about with Greasemonkey or something. So, when I wanted to offer users the ability to toggle in and out of text-only mode, I wrote a Firefox add-on. Thing is,...