java/java script/ya ain't missing much

[Janina Sajka]

As far as I can tell there's no excuse for a javascript submit
button, or a javascript url either.

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2002, cwhitley wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > lynx not having java script doesn't make ya'll missing much.  Script really
> > isn't all that accessable.  Pure java, with the swing libraries, now that's
> > a different story.  Most of the client side java script is graphical in
> > nature and thus not spoken.  Even the "text" is drawn on the screen in such
> > a way that jaws at least doesn't neccessarily speak it or even recognize
> > links imbedded within it.
> 
> The biggest problem, however, is that more and more web forms are using
> javascript submit buttons which Lynx is unable to find, meaming that you
> fill out a nice long form, yes, it's accessible, than you can't submit it
> because it's a javascript submit button.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 

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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
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