Restoring grub

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Sat Jan 17 22:30:22 EST 2004


But how? If you let Windows' IE load a page and just listen to it being
read, how do you know what part of the text you're hearing is a link,
and what part is just the text of the page. What's the signal that says
"I'm a hyperlink?" How does that work?


Glenn Ervin at Home writes:
> From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
> 
> I guess that with winblows, one could just listen to a page as it opens, and
> if you hear the link that you want, you can press the control key and you
> will either be on the link, or a line or two past it.
> Ready to just press enter on the link.
> Glenn.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 4:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Restoring grub
> 
> 
> I don't follow. When the web page is retrieved, it's read to me. So, I
> just listen. Each hyper link is numbered sequentially. My browser simply
> inserts the number. So, I know that the first time I hear it say "one,"
> the next word (or words) are a link. And, I know that the next hyperlink
> I hear will be number two, and so on through the page.
> 
> I don't have to go find, though I certainly can if I want. All I really
> need to do is listen.
> 
> Garrett Klein writes:
> >
> > What I meant was that you have to find the result you want in order to
> > know the link number for it.
> 
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