user friendly browsers

[Janina Sajka]

Any time, Ed.

Just one quick point, when you press the dot on the numeric keypad, is it
giving you a position on screen that changes as you move up and down? In
other words, when you press tab, do you get different numbers than before
you pressed tab? In particular, it's not always saying something stupid
like "line 24, position 80," right?

This is my round about way of asking whether cursor tracking is enabled.
This is essential for blind friendly performance, and can be controlled
from the command line:

lynx -show_cursor On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ed Thurston wrote:

or from the lynx.cfg file, or by changing the option from within lynx,
which is accessed by pressing 'o'. If you use the 'o' options menu, be
sure to save the settings you like.

 > Hello Janina,
>
> Wow! when one asks for help on this list, he or she really gets the red
> carpet treatment.
>
> as it turns out my biggest problem was that I did not know anything at all
> about Lynx.  Now thanks to all of the assistance I have received, I can at
> least bring up lynx, go to a desired url, navigate around that web site, do
> limited functions there and exit.
>
> Yes, the g command does open an edit box to bring up another  url, yes, the
> links are numbered and the dot dot does give my position on the page as
> well as the console I am working in.
>
> I most gratefully thank you and all the other listers who have jump started
> me into learning how to work with this big cat!
>
> doubtless I will be calling on you and other listers for additional
> assistance a bit farther down the road!
>
> Till then
>
> Ed,
>
> At 08:29 PM 7/4/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >What happens if you press the letter g and then type in a uri such as:
> >
> >	http://www.linux-speakup.org
> >
> >and press enter? Does the speakup web site home page come up?
> >
> >PS: Where is your cursor while you're in Lynx? Press the dot key on the
> >numeric keypad to find out. The dot is the smaller key between insert/0
> >and the enter key on the numeric keypad.
> >
> >PSS: Is link numbering turned on in your lynx? Or do you just not like
> >that? I ask because most blind lynx users prefer this, in my experience.
> >
> >Please tell us a little more. I am very sure we can turn you into a fan of
> >lynx.
> >
> >On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Ed Thurston wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I am very much a newbie!  Around three months ago a friend set up this
> >> Linux system for me and gave me some start up instructions.   I am using
> >> Speakup, SlackWare, Elm, Joe and Lynx.  I am not sure of the versions of
> >> any of the foregoing, but they were the latest available three months ago.
> >> everything is going great so far except for  Lynx.
> >>
> >> Whenever I load it, I get some general instructions and several links.
> >> After clicking on a link I go to the Lynx web site and they want me to down
> >> load andinstall that particular program.  However, I already have a lynx
> >> program loaded and all I want is to get to it's command line so that I can
> >> use the net.
> >>
> >> Also After reading a manual on Lynx or rather a very long list of many
> >> pages of commands, I am wondering if if there is a more user friendly web
> >> browser?  I heard somewhere about one called w3m, but don't know if it has
> >> a version for Linux.  does anyone have any information on it?
> >>
> >> I would be very appreciative for any assistance anyone  can give me.
> >>
> >> Ed,
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Speakup mailing list
> >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >>
> >
> >--
> >
> >				Janina Sajka, Director
> >				Technology Research and Development
> >				Governmental Relations Group
> >				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >
> >Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> >
> >Chair, Accessibility SIG
> >Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> >http://www.openebook.org
> >
> >Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
> >Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.html
> >
> >Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
> >King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
> >http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp
> >
> >Learn how to make accessible software at
> http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
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> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> >
>
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>

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.html

Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp

Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html