Can I make websites easier to read?
I’m having increasing difficulty Q reading the text on many websites, which appear in more of a grey than black font. Is there anything I can do to make it easier to read web pages, perhaps by making fonts bolder? Allan Mcgregor
Assuming you’re using a A Windows 10 computer, there are numerous things you can do. The first and often simplest is to try the zoom function. In any of the main modern browsers, you can control zoom by holding down the Control (Ctrl) button on your keyboard before tapping the plus (‘+’) or minus (‘-’) keys – or holding down Ctrl while twiddling your mouse wheel, if it has one.
Alternatively, or as well, you can at any time adjust the High Contrast mode that’s part of Windows 10’s Ease of Access features for accessibility. To do this, just hold down the left Alt button along with Shift and then tap Print Screen (Prtscn). This puts the whole of Windows, browser and websites and all, into a mode that employs a few high-contrast colours to make text (in particular) much easier to pick out (see screenshot above). To switch it off again, just once more use the left Alt+shift+prtscn keyboard shortcut.
Finally, you could download an extension that’ll apply similar highcontrast effects just within the browser window. For Chrome (or Edge), for example, Google’s own High Contrast add-on will do the job (see screenshot above). It’s a free download from www. snipca.com/38605 – just click the ‘Add to Chrome’ button.