Audio clutter reduction and content identification for web-based screen-readers

A computer-readable storage medium containing a program which, when executed by a processor, performs an operation of reading web pages, the operation comprising:

• receiving one or more predefined user-configurable settings from a user, wherein at least one of the one or more predefined user-configurable settings defines an initial reading position for a web page to be subsequently retrieved;
• upon retrieving the webpage for the user, selecting the at least one setting from the predefined user-configurable settings on the basis of an attribute of the web page, wherein the attribute is at least one of content of the web page and a URL of the web page;
• determining the initial reading position on the web page as specified by the selected at least one setting from the predefined user-configurable settings;
• and
• reading the web page from the initial reading position according to the selected at least one setting from the predefined user-configurable settings.

A computer, comprising:

• a memory containing a web page reading program;
• and
• a processor which, when executing the web page reading program, performs an operation comprising:
• receiving one or more predefined user-configurable settings from a user, wherein at least one of the one or more user-configurable settings defines an initial reading position for a web page to be subsequently retrieved;
• upon retrieving the web page for the user, selecting the at least one setting from the predefined set of user-configurable settings on the basis of an attribute of the web page, wherein the attribute is at least one of content of the web page and a URL of the web page;
• determining an initial reading position on the web page as specified by the selected at least one setting from predefined user-configurable settings;
• and
• reading the web page from the initial reading position according to the predefined user-configurable settings.

A computer readable storage medium containing a program which, when executed by a processor

• performs an operation to determine an initial display position for documents, the operation comprising:
• receiving one or more predefined user-configurable settings from a user, wherein at least one setting from the user-configurable settings defines an initial display position for a document to be subsequently received;
• receiving the document;
• identifying a plurality of content elements in the document;
• and
• selecting one of the plurality of content elements as the initial display position according to the at least one setting from predefined user-configurable settings, wherein the at least one setting is selected from the predefined user-configurable settings on the basis of an attribute of the document, wherein the attribute is at least one of content of the document and a URL of the document.