Textise

Textise

Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an Internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. Try it here - https://www.textise.net/

In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, pretty fonts, they all go, leaving plain text. What’s really cool, though, is that links are retained, although these are no ordinary links: click one and you’re transported to another text-only page, and that page leads to another, and another, and another… You stay in Textise’s world until you click the “Back To Original Page” link.

An interesting feature of Textise is that by using it you can by-pass Pay-walls on subscription-only pages such as Newspapers, Journals etc. A bonus for destitute students and probably highly illegal.

• It can improve accessibility for the blind and partially-sighted.
• It creates pages that are better for printing when it’s just the words you’re after.
• It allows safer navigation to suspicious web-sites.
• It can make cluttered pages easier to read.
• It can show you what a search engine sees when it scans a web page – great for SEO!
• It can show you what a screen reader sees when it processes a web page – great for ensuring accessibility!
• It can help with web research.

The page that shows up in your browser looks a bit odd because it is Text Only, with as it say, all images, colours and other embellishments removed. You may need to scroll down the page to find what you are looking for. A convenient way to improve the reading experience is the copy the text you want by selecting it and then copying using Control-C and then pasting it into a text reader like Google.Docs, OneNote or Notepad using Control-V.

Source: https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/