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Re:Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL by eyelidlessness on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:04PM (#28173033)
This is cool! I recently tried to use VoiceOver on my iPhone and it’s… astonishingly difficult to use for just text to speech!

One minor request: I realize the form page itself is very minimal, but this would be much more usable on a phone if you set the font-size of the input to at least 16px, and a reasonable viewport meta tag eg `<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">`

Re:Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL by fairytale on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:22PM (#28174711)
I don't think that the ", initial-scale=1" would be necessary.

Nowadays, <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> works just fine.

Re:Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL by chrismorgan on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:24PM (#28176898)
Not certain, I hear some saying it still has an effect on at least iOS Safari <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629377>, though I’m not sure whether that’s true of current iOS Safari any more, or just slightly older versions that are still in use. I’d love to have someone test carefully and spell out exactly what it achieves, and for what versions.
Re:Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL by hopesthoughts on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:29PM (#28194115)
So yeah I use VoiceOver to navigate my phone on a daily basis, but I'm not a fan of reading things with it. If I'm going on a trip or something, I'll put the Kindle app on my phone. Otherwise I use NVDA on my desktop for that. It's much more efficient for reading long things.
Re:Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL by 3pt14159 on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:43PM (#28174275)
The bigger the better for this type of page, given that some people that use it may have faulty eyesight.