getting off my windows dependency

[Janina Sajka]

to ignore the system cursor. It's parked in the lower left hand corner.

If you expect lynx to behave like IE, you're going to be frustrated. It
doesn't.

Up and down arrow moves through focusable elements, i.e. hyperlinks,
drop-down lists, form fields, etc.

Since you can't edit the text of a web page in lynx, there's really no
point to the default Windows behavior, imho. Reading with the screen
review keys is what most of us do.

mikster4 at msn.com writes:
> I am not sure what you are meaning about show cursor. If you mean for  
> it to show a cursor like in a text editor, I am not aware of one. I 
> read the page with the numpad review keys, and use the cursor keys to 
> move the highlight between page objects (e.g. links, text boxes, 
> buttons, etc). Windows screen readers give you a false impression, 
> they make it possible to cursor through the page like a word 
> processor, in fact remove the screen reader, and that is no longer so. 
> 
> All settings for elinks can be reached through the menu system, and 
> the screens that appear. You may find the setting screens more usable if 
> you have no page loaded. Also you will find you will have to keep changing 
> between cursoring mode in speakup.
> Mike
> Farhan writes:
> 
> >yes, i actaully tried lynx and it was sorta wierd, i'll try elinks and see 
> >what happens do i have to type elinks show-cursor or not
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: <mikster4 at msn.com>
> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:36 AM
> >Subject: Re: getting off my windows dependency
> >
> >
> >>Would be helpful if you described what you want help with.
> >>
> >>I will assume that you meant what e-mail clients and web browsers are 
> >>there. I will assume you have your hardware sorted, and can get a 
> >>connection to the internet.
> >>I am currently writing this e-mail in cone. I like this because it allows 
> >>you to have multiple accounts specified, supports pop3, imap, smtp, local 
> >>mail and limited support for news accounts. I have found that cone does 
> >>not like my university imap server, so for that I use pine. There are 
> >>many more, and if you are using a distribution like Debian or Gentoo with 
> >>many packages and a package management system, search that for e-mail, or 
> >>similar.
> >>
> >>Web browsers, elinks is a good general purpose text based one, giving 
> >>cookies, java script, bookmarks, support for frames, and more. Most 
> >>pre-built packages of elinks do not seem to have java script, you may 
> >>have to build it from source (I found the patch included with elinks  
> >>0.11 did not work on spidermonkey, so I had to compile spidermonkey with 
> >>elinks 0.10 first). Links2 comes with java script built in for most 
> >>pre-built packages, but links2 is more limited in features, elinks is a 
> >>branch-off from links2 and aims to give more features. Lynx is a very 
> >>basic text browser, but for simple things, I find best. There may be some 
> >>for gnome, but I don't know of these and their accessibility. Mike Farhan 
> >>writes:
> >>
> >>>Hey i want to get off my windows dependency for reading email and using 
> >>>the net but i'm not sure how to do this. i need some help to get away 
> >>>from...microcrap. help?
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
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