Web Page reading

HELP Read™ can read the text from web pages in two ways:

• Copied to clipboard (Lesson 1)
• The active browser window directly loaded to HELP Read™ with the Web Page command

NEW ADD-ON SCRIPT:

To Enhance Your Reading of Web Page Text, Download the READ WEB BOOK (readweb.bok): place this file in the HELP Read™ folder [c:\HELPREAD] you created on your computer when you ran the Setup Instructions

In most cases, using the clipboard could be the least confusing of the two methods because the alternative direct method will tend to read everything it sees as text including text-based hyperlink menus and sidebar content.

However, many web sites such as those posted by government agencies tend to be straight text making the Web Page reading feature an excellent tool for the researcher or student needing to cover vast amounts of material with reinforced (both-sides-of-the-brain) retention.

HELP Read must know where to find your browser

• In HELP Read™ under File, click Web Page
• HELP Read™ requests the path to your browser’s program executable
• To find the path click the Start button, go to Programs and continue until you come to the browser listing
• RIGHT click the browser icon and select Properties
• In the Properties box, the path line should already be selected, if not you can drag across the text to highlight it
• Use the keyboard command “Ctrl + C” to copy the path text
• Important: close the Properties box by the Cancel button so that you do not accidentally change anything
• Click in the HELP Read™ path request area to let your computer know where to focus and Paste the copied text with the keyboard command “Ctrl + V”

That’s it! BUT, please keep in mind that there have been many different versions of browser since we started employing this feature. On some machines, you’ll get a false error message, or need to select the Web Page menu selection more than once to start the web page reading.  The readweb.bok add-on above can greatly improve your web page reading.

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