links and speakup

Luke Davis ldavis at shellworld.net
Tue Nov 4 23:05:49 EST 2003


Janina

The tables can be done either way: as actual tables (which can be quite
useful), or in the lynx (the cat) style.


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:

> This is off the top of my head so may not be fully accurate:
>
> 1.)	You can get the hyperlinks to be numbered. I find that helpful.
>
> 2.)	You can get the cursor to track. That's critical, of course.
>
> But, I think that's about it. The chain does not do the table
> serialization thing like the cat does, therefore you get islands of text
> on screen that someone can see belong together, but that reads very
> poorly with a screen reader's basically left to right and top to bottom
> reading strategy.
>
> Also, not all javascript pages will work. I'm sorry, I don't recall all
> the details. Hope this helps, though.
>
> Deedra Waters writes:
> > From: Deedra Waters <deedra at dmwaters.us>
> >
> > I've seen people talk about being able to use links in the past. What I
> > want to know, is are there tips to getting links to play nice? I'm having
> > problems moving to some links on pages, and in others, if the page is in
> > columns it reads very badly. I'm in desperate need of a browser that
> > supports java script, so I can fill out some financial aid applications
> > for school.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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