[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Dealing with freepatterns full of ads

[Tracy Mousseau]

Hello:


I copy and pasted the pattern information into a writer/word document 
and leave the website info alone.


Tracy M

On 2026-08-13 11:11 a.m., Lovette Yewchan via NFB-Blind-Crafters wrote:
> I do similar.
> There is a way on the mac to get rid of any false links and make it 
> very speech friendly.
> I’ve been working for weeks to put all my patterns into folders that 
> make sense.
> THe thing is, I keep getting new patterns and don’t always put them 
> where I should.
> haha.
> Lovette
>
>
>> On Aug 13, 2026, at 6:57 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters 
>> <nfb-blind-crafters at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> I’ve been grabbing free patterns off the internet.  All of them have 
>> ads, and often ads that make the screen change regularly and change 
>> where I am in the text.
>> My solution is to select a lot of the webpage, copy it to the 
>> clipboard, then paste it into a Notepad file.  I use Windows.  Then I 
>> go through the file and take out all the stuff I don’t want.  It 
>> takes a little while, but it doesn’t jump around, and I know I want 
>> the file on my PC anyway.  It does take out any links to videos, but 
>> I’m not big on videos anyway, and I can always go back to the webpage 
>> if I need to.
>> How do other people handle patterns on the internet?
>> Tracy
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