Safari annoyingly announces reader and translation

The Safari web browser has a longstanding annoying misfeature: it announces “Reader Available” and “Translation Available” in the address bar, whether you like it or not, with no way I know of to stop that madness. This behavior is bad on Mac, worse on iPhone. Below is a screen recording of Safari on Mac. If you watch the screen recording frame by frame, you can see that the page URL appears for a fraction of a second after the link is clicked, but then the URL is replaced by “Reader Available” and “Translation Available” for an incredible five seconds before the URL is clearly distinguishable! This annoying Safari behavior is worse on iPhone because its toolbar is much narrower, with room for fewer controls, and Safari assumes wrongly that when “Reader Available” or “Translation Available” is displayed, you want the main toolbar widget to trigger reader or translation rather than open the menu of options. On iPhone, you can’t open a Safari extension popup window from the start page,…