Elinks and Speakup support

[Michael Whapples]

Speakup works quite well with elinks, there is no special setup you need to 
do.

As I remember you mentioned previously you use gentoo (correct me if I am 
wrong), so you should have elinks available through portage. You will need 
to tell it you want javascript support (if you want that, in the modern age 
it is fairly useful), so you need to specify the correct keyword (I am not 
sure as I don't use gentoo now, but I think it is "javascript", but if you 
install ufed then you will find the option within the interface that 
provides for setting up keywords for portage).

Using with speakup, different modes may work well in different environments. 
Speakup in highlight tracking mode follows the selected link, but it speaks 
nothing when you move onto a inputbox if no default value is there, so you 
may want a different mode near forms or check things with screen review 
(like you need to to read the page).

One bit which is not so good is elinks lays out tables in the full 2D 
structure, while good if you have a table of data, not so good if the page 
has a table for layout (eg. two columns of bodies of text, or to keep a left 
navigation bar separate from the main body), so reading flow may not be 
good.

I think this covers the basics, which the normal instructions don't (so 
reading this email with the normal instructions should be fairly full), but 
if you still have any questions then I will try and answer them.

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Hinton" <keithint38 at CommSpeed.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:08 PM
Subject: Elinks and Speakup support


How well does Speakup work with Elinks?
Are there any special configuration options that I will need to set for 
displaying fof forms, etc?
wWould anyone be able to give me a walkthrough off list on how to set up 
Elinks, if it is a good browser or not?
Regards,
--Keith, KeithNet network Administrator.
Website:
http://www.KeithNet.DynDNS.org