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Former Employee

Jun 10, 2019

Reading View in Insider Channels

Microsoft Edge’s reading view experience is designed to let you read web content without any extraneous information or anything jarring that strain your eyes. Reading is one of the primary activit...

tomscharbach

Bronze Contributor

Jun 16, 2019

Elliot Kirk I use reading view a lot, mostly on technical/legal websites were articles are long. Your post mentions customization tools coming in future iterations.

A customization tool that I would like to see is a tool giving users the option to (1) set the background color to either beige or white, (2) set the typeface to serif or sans-serif, and (3) adjust font size. This isn't just a whim on my part. I'm in my 70's, and and for those of us with aging eyes, these customization options would increase usability.

Compare/contrast the two screens below:

Drew1903

Silver Contributor

Jun 17, 2019

There are a bunch of features and tools in the Edge version of RV including, ones you mention. We are all anxiously awaiting them in the Edge C version. We have been told all will be there by the time Edge C becomes our default browser.

And here is a wee tip for you. In your Win10 > Settings > Ease of access. There you find a slider which will change/ set just only the text size. Try it, you will like it 😊

Cheers,
Drew