Speakup Skipping Lines in Lynx?
Toby Fisher
toby at tjfisher.co.uk
Mon Nov 10 07:51:15 EST 2003
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi:
>
> The thing with lynx is that it only prints what it has to to update the
> screen. It also joins the last word on the first line to the next word on
> the next, by the way. So I always get speakup to read me the screen after
> it's printed, rather than listen to speakup speak it on the way up, as you
> can easily miss things. If you're looking at information that is largely
> the same from screen to screen, I can easily see how 4 lines could be left
> out.
That's right.
I actually find this behaviour very useful when navigating a website where
say the top half of the screen is a load of menu items, and selecting one
only changes the bottom half of the first page...why do I want to hear the
menu again?
Cheers.
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