ot: bank of america accessibility revisited

[Cheryl Homiak]

It should be fine, but to use bank of america you have to use a different 
user agent. there was a big discussion about this a while back. Some 
websites reject your browser, not on the basis of a real problem, but just 
because it doesn't have the user agent for a certain browser. It doesn't 
make sense, and there ought to be a better alternative than to accommodate 
them by letting the website see what it insists on seeing, but sometimes 
there don't seem to be other options. 
What I've done for websites where I absolutely have to use another user 
agent is make a file for executing lynx that way with a variable so you 
can put in the url. You can call it whatever you want but make sure you do
chmod +x filename (meaning whatever the filename is).
then move it to /usr/local/bin.
Then just type the filename and the url.
There's a way to actually put it in lynx permanently but I prefer not to 
do this when it isn't needed.
You can also do it in links the chain but I don't think there's any 
alternative but to put it in your .links/links.cfg. 
Here's the contents of my file; The $1 at the end is what allows  you 
to put in the url to which you are 
going.

lynx --useragent='Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)' $1

-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."