LYNX-DEV Forwarded: Re: The <SCRIPT>...</SCRIPT> tags

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

Here's an interesting exchange going on over on <URL: news:alt.html > ...

<URL: http://ww2.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/address@hidden@alt%2ehtml >


                       Re: The <SCRIPT>...</SCRIPT> tags
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>From           address@hidden (Ron Hopkins-Lutz)
Organization   MegsInet, Inc. - Midwestern Internet Services
Date           Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:04:32 GMT
Newsgroups     [2]alt.html
Message-ID     <address@hidden>
References     [3]1 [4]2
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In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden wrote:
}
}According to The Accidental Tourist (D. Chou) <address@hidden>:
}:Say, aren't JavaScript-incapable browsers supposed to ignore all that's
}:between the two?? Lynx seems to get all hung up about it, though....
}:
}:What's going on?
}
}Lynx typically only gets cranky when it encounters bogus, invalid HTML.
}And in fact, over the past 2-3 yrs, lynx has gotten scruffy code to
}support a lot of bogus HTML spewed across the internet.
}
}For folk who are really concerned for instance about making their pages
}compatible for the blind, those with only text access, or those folk on
}Mac, Windows, Unix, VMS, etc. who want substance over boring flash, sign
}up for the lynx mailing list (See [5]http://lynx.browser.org/ for details).

An even better site is theAssociation for Development of Information
Technologies for the Blindat:

[6]http://www.asphi.it/english/

The fact is that Lynx isn't really a very good solution for the blind unless
they have only older machines or only textaccess to start with. As there are
peefectly capable free reader programs for Windows and some other OS that
allow audio access combined w[th reading of browsers, news,etc., such as
read2me. For several years my best friend and I (he is blind) consulted to the
Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired here in Ohio. We found that there
is very little reason that the blind cannot use their OS of choice including
GUIs, except for UNIX/LINUX. (The latter were a problem only because there is
very little development being done for these systems, compared to others, in
area of add ons for the handicapped, particulalry in the area of voice control
and to a lesser extent readers.)

Part of the reason that the blind and others have problems with access is not
the web designers, but that third party payment for equipment has driven up
prices of adaptive devices and introduced less than versatile technology as
the standard. Agencies tend to be captive to vendors who have no interest in
inexpensive ways of adapting the machine to existing situations. Instead
they look at out of date technologies such as text based machines that have
trouble coping with modern needs.

(We discontinued operations a while back. But I remember having to justify our
recommendation of a $1900 Pentium machine with $200 of adaptive software
instead of what the Society for the Blind recommended; a $5,000. 286 (!) with
add on hardware that couldn't even handle common business computing
situations.)

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Ron Hopkins-Lutz = address@hidden
"We're put here on earth to help others. I'm not sure what the others are put h
ere for." -- W. H. Auden

References

   1. mailto:address@hidden
   2. news:alt.html
   3. http://ww2.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/address@hidden@sprynet.com
   4. http://ww2.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/address@hidden@srv38s4u.cas.org
   5. http://lynx.browser.org/
   6. http://www.asphi.it/english/
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Larry W. Virden                 INET: address@hidden
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