That must suck so much, hon, hang in there. *hugs*
FWIW Firefox has a 'Toggle reader view (F9)' that makes every page text only in a default font and you can choose some font options like size etc and to either use dark or light setting (white text on black or vice versa) by clicking on the 'Aa' thingy on the left of the text. Pressing F9 to turn it off and on seems to work for me, or you can find its icon on the right end of the url bar, right next to the Bookmark star, it looks like a page (rectangle with lines). Maybe you could try it and see if it helps you read stuff easier than the constant copy & pasting?
Also Windows has a Magnifier thing in the Accessibility options, both windows 10 and 11, you should be able to find it by typing in Accessibility or Magnifier, might depend on your version of windows, toggle it on, then set the level of zoom - default seems to be 200% but you can change it. Seems to be turned on by pressing the Windows key (usually located somewhere to the right of the space bar between Ctrl and Alt) and the + (plus) key at the same time, and turned off by Windows key and the Esc(ape) key.
I know these might be a hassle to set up but they might help make stuff easier a bit? I remember the old old internet days of crazy colors on crazy backgrounds and having to c&p pages into Word just to make the text readable, it was tedious then, I can imagine how hard it must be for you now. All the hugs!
ETA: Forgot to mention that you can choose 'dark' in windows too, so it's white on black, and also the default fonts, and you might already have this but I'll put it here anyway: right-click anywhere empty on the desktop, click on Display settings, and turn that Scale right up to a percentage that you can more easily see. This makes windows' own text and icons larger. Might make some things ugly but at least you'll be able to see them.
ETA2: Sorry for all the edits, just correcting typos and facts, I have pretty much given up on getting a proper nights sleep at this point so evenings can be hard to brain.
FWIW Firefox has a 'Toggle reader view (F9)' that makes every page text only in a default font and you can choose some font options like size etc and to either use dark or light setting (white text on black or vice versa) by clicking on the 'Aa' thingy on the left of the text. Pressing F9 to turn it off and on seems to work for me, or you can find its icon on the right end of the url bar, right next to the Bookmark star, it looks like a page (rectangle with lines). Maybe you could try it and see if it helps you read stuff easier than the constant copy & pasting?
Also Windows has a Magnifier thing in the Accessibility options, both windows 10 and 11, you should be able to find it by typing in Accessibility or Magnifier, might depend on your version of windows, toggle it on, then set the level of zoom - default seems to be 200% but you can change it. Seems to be turned on by pressing the Windows key (usually located somewhere to the right of the space bar between Ctrl and Alt) and the + (plus) key at the same time, and turned off by Windows key and the Esc(ape) key.
I know these might be a hassle to set up but they might help make stuff easier a bit? I remember the old old internet days of crazy colors on crazy backgrounds and having to c&p pages into Word just to make the text readable, it was tedious then, I can imagine how hard it must be for you now. All the hugs!
ETA: Forgot to mention that you can choose 'dark' in windows too, so it's white on black, and also the default fonts, and you might already have this but I'll put it here anyway: right-click anywhere empty on the desktop, click on Display settings, and turn that Scale right up to a percentage that you can more easily see. This makes windows' own text and icons larger. Might make some things ugly but at least you'll be able to see them.
ETA2: Sorry for all the edits, just correcting typos and facts, I have pretty much given up on getting a proper nights sleep at this point so evenings can be hard to brain.
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