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Your browser can already speak a page · How to activate read-aloud features on web pages https://ilo.im/16b5hy
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#Reading #Audio #Accessibility #TextToSpeech #Text #Content #Webpages #Browsers
#Business #Guides
Your browser can already speak a page · How to activate read-aloud features on web pages https://ilo.im/16b5hy
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#Reading #Audio #Accessibility #TextToSpeech #Text #Content #Webpages #Browsers

Users can customize the features built into the browser, something not often available from third-party approaches. Is an “AI” company offering to provide spoken versions of your pages for users? Is an overlay company promising to make your content more accessible by its overlay speaking it? Is some other vendor…
Tip #793
Create a split-screen view by tiling tabs with drag and drop.
Instead of constantly switching back and forth between tabs, you can tile tabs to create a split-screen view. Tab Tiling lets you compare, reference, monitor, and think in parallel. There are a few different ways to tile tabs, but drag and drop is probably the easiest one.
To tile tabs:
You can add more tabs to the tiled view with the same method.
#Business #Previews
AI performance in Bing Webmaster Tools · Bing introduces search insights for AI answers https://ilo.im/16aj9f
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#Bing #SearchEngine #WebmasterTools #WebAnalytics #AI #Citations #Webpages #Development #WebDev #Frontend

Now in public preview, AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools shows when your site is cited in AI‑generated answers across Microsoft Copilot, AI‑generated summaries in Bing, and select partner integrations. See which URLs are referenced and how citation activity changes over time.
Internet Archive Blog: Follow the Changes: 9 Ways Web Archives are Used in Digital Investigations. “In this piece we draw on the Internet Archive’s News Stories collection to surface practices and use cultures of the Wayback Machine amongst journalists and media organisations. We analysed a dataset of about 8,600 news articles, assembled by the IA via daily Google News keyword searches since […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/follow-the-changes-9-ways-web-archives-are-used-in-digital-investigations-internet-archive-blog/
Internet Archive Blog: Follow the Changes: 9 Ways Web Archives are Used in Digital Investigations. “In this piece we draw on the Internet Archive’s News Stories collection to surface practice…
Spending the snow day looking at 404 pages of various websites and let me yell you now: they're very unique and creative in what websites do.
“a recent #PewResearchCenter study on digital decay found that 38 percent of #webpages accessible in 2013 are not accessible today.
This happens because pages are taken down, #URLs are changed, and entire #websites vanish, as in the case of dozens of #ScientificJournals and all the critical research they contained. This is especially acute for #news”
<https://theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture>
New-to-me: One Million Screenshots. From the front page: “We rendered over 1 million of the web’s top homepages. This is the result. Zoom, pan and click to explore – like Google Maps.”
Tip #772
Preview web pages before opening them in Vivaldi on iOS.
In Vivaldi on iOS, you don’t need to play a guessing game of what will actually open when you go to the link. Simply preview the link to get a sneak peek of the content before committing to opening it.
To preview a link:
In case you don’t see previews or, conversely, want to hide them:
CNN: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved. “The White House in January ordered vast amounts of government webpages to be taken down. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is blurring the line between what’s real and what’s artificially generated — in some ways replacing the need to visit websites entirely. And more of the internet is now hidden behind paywalls or […]