{"id":8305,"date":"2023-02-09T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2023-02-09T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:51:18","slug":"focus-effortlessly-while-browsing-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2023\/02\/09\/focus-effortlessly-while-browsing-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus effortlessly while browsing the web"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Web pages are cluttered with unnecessary\u2014to the reader\u2014content such as ads, multiple navigation menus, videos that auto play. These all contribute to cognitive load. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With nothing to add to your computer at all, you can focus effortlessly while browsing the web. In fact, you can even focus while browsing on your mobile device in many cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to focus while browsing the web, you are looking for Reader Mode or Read Mode in your browser. Unfortunately, Swarthmore&#8217;s browser used by over 50% of the campus\u2014Chrome\u2014does not have this mode available without an extension. However, two well-supported browsers on campus do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages\">Firefox<\/a> (Mozilla)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/safari\/hide-ads-when-reading-sfri32632\/mac\">Safari<\/a> (Apple)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Side-by-side of the Mozilla Firefox Reader Mode on the left and the Firefox browser on the right on a story on CNN.com.\" class=\"wp-image-8310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM-107x60.png 107w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-06-at-2.31.49-PM.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Firefox reader mode applied to CNN.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We also support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texthelp.com\/products\/read-and-write-education\/\">Read &amp; Write<\/a> here at Swarthmore. Read &amp; Write is on our <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/SW\/Assistive+Technology+Software\">Assistive Technology Software page<\/a> and has a <a href=\"https:\/\/academy.texthelp.com\/read-and-write-education\/simplify\/\">Simplify tool<\/a> that can declutter your page as well as provide summaries of articles. It appears as a browser extension or plugin and works with the major browsers we support on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, my colleague Doug Willen had a blog post somewhat related in that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/10\/05\/built-in-reading-tools-firefox-safari\/\">he discussed protecting your online browsing<\/a>. Please revisit this if this area of browsing interests you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in 2020, Corrine Schoeb did a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/10\/05\/built-in-reading-tools-firefox-safari\/\">pictorial of the Firefox and Safari modes as well as BeeLine Reader<\/a> while discussing eye strain and fatigue. While the images may be slightly outdated, they may still help you understand how to focus while browsing the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoy your decluttered web browsing and enjoy this subtle use of assistive technology (AT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web pages are cluttered with unnecessary\u2014to the reader\u2014content such as ads, multiple navigation menus, videos that auto play. These all contribute to cognitive load. With nothing to add to your computer at all, you can focus effortlessly while browsing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2023\/02\/09\/focus-effortlessly-while-browsing-the-web\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Focus effortlessly while browsing the web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,71,113,114,12],"tags":[90],"class_list":{"0":"post-8305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-accessibility","9":"category-facultystaff","10":"category-students","11":"category-tips","12":"tag-featured","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5926070-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-29X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}