Lynx links...

Lynx links...

[Boris Daix]

Hi all,

    I'm new to Linux and especially with BRLTTY. I use a 20 sized braille
display, and I run a Debian Woody. I'd like to know how to make lynx tell me
if something is a link or not, and mainly if it is "selected" or not. I
don't know if we can check the characters' color, anyway I think it isn't
very friendly/easy to browse and always change from real page to another
mode that tells colors... (I said I even don't know if BRLTTY does that - it
could be a good idea :-)).
    So, I'd like to customize lynx to put, for example, stars arround
selected link and opposed hard braces arround all other unselected links. I
don't know if already visited links are different from general links in
lynx, but we could imagine that if they are, we would arround them with soft
braces.

i.e. : *link selected*, ]unselected links[, )already visited link(

How to do that ? If it doesn't exist, and if work-arrounds are too loud,
would this fashion interests some of you so that we could manage to make it
? Are there other browsers more usable with brltty ?

Thanks and forgive me if this subject is well-known - but I missed the first
step.

- B.

Re: Lynx links...

[Willem van der Walt<vdwaltw@health.gov.za>]

Hello,
You could start to make lynx more friendly by 
setting the show_cursor option either in the configuration file or
on the command line.
You can also set the option 
links_are_numbered sothat a link is shown like [1] first link
[2] second link etc.
I am using speech not braille, but this might help.
regards, Willem

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Boris Daix wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>     I'm new to Linux and especially with BRLTTY. I use a 20 sized braille
> display, and I run a Debian Woody. I'd like to know how to make lynx tell me
> if something is a link or not, and mainly if it is "selected" or not. I
> don't know if we can check the characters' color, anyway I think it isn't
> very friendly/easy to browse and always change from real page to another
> mode that tells colors... (I said I even don't know if BRLTTY does that - it
> could be a good idea :-)).
>     So, I'd like to customize lynx to put, for example, stars arround
> selected link and opposed hard braces arround all other unselected links. I
> don't know if already visited links are different from general links in
> lynx, but we could imagine that if they are, we would arround them with soft
> braces.
> 
> i.e. : *link selected*, ]unselected links[, )already visited link(
> 
> How to do that ? If it doesn't exist, and if work-arrounds are too loud,
> would this fashion interests some of you so that we could manage to make it
> ? Are there other browsers more usable with brltty ?
> 
> Thanks and forgive me if this subject is well-known - but I missed the first
> step.
> 
> - B.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Lynx links...

[Janina Sajka]

I don't know that you'll like this solution, but those of us who
use speech primarily often use the numbering feature for links
and form fields.

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Boris Daix wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>     I'm new to Linux and especially with BRLTTY. I use a 20 sized braille
> display, and I run a Debian Woody. I'd like to know how to make lynx tell me
> if something is a link or not, and mainly if it is "selected" or not. I
> don't know if we can check the characters' color, anyway I think it isn't
> very friendly/easy to browse and always change from real page to another
> mode that tells colors... (I said I even don't know if BRLTTY does that - it
> could be a good idea :-)).
>     So, I'd like to customize lynx to put, for example, stars arround
> selected link and opposed hard braces arround all other unselected links. I
> don't know if already visited links are different from general links in
> lynx, but we could imagine that if they are, we would arround them with soft
> braces.
> 
> i.e. : *link selected*, ]unselected links[, )already visited link(
> 
> How to do that ? If it doesn't exist, and if work-arrounds are too loud,
> would this fashion interests some of you so that we could manage to make it
> ? Are there other browsers more usable with brltty ?
> 
> Thanks and forgive me if this subject is well-known - but I missed the first
> step.
> 
> - B.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: Lynx links...

[Andor Demarteau]

if you select a link in lynx, the page will eb blanked and the new page
will be read from the net.
Okay, the old page may remain on screen for some time ;)

Do set the show_cursor directive in your lynx.config file, this will put
the cursor at the start of the link you are at.
Also set usermdoe to advanced.
This wil print the url of the link youa re at at the bottom of the screen
instead of the help-mode
you need not to rely on helpmode on your screen anymore, but that's obvious

Hope this helps a bit


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Re: Lynx links...

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Boris Daix on May 23, 2002, at 11:43]

>mode that tells colors... (I said I even don't know if BRLTTY does that

BRLTTY has a command which enables you to ask what the colour of a charactger
is. So far, it's only availalbe on the Alva, BrailleLite, BrailleNote,
HandyTech, Papenmeier, and TSI displays. It could easily be added to another
display, though, if you have one in mind and would be willing to help us test
it.

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