From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: xwindows
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:09:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004401c1fd93$4d42d550$91e03244@DAVIDPOEHLMAN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205161444090.2412-100000@toccata.rednote.net>
one could wish for a lynx like ie. if ie were like lynx we could have
the best of both worlds and drop the security nonsense.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: xwindows
Heav en forefiend.
I like lynx just as it is. I would hate to think it would ever
behave like Internet Explorer., That would be brain dead.
Now, one can wish for javascript support without emmulating IE.
Those two are not the same thing.
On Wed, 15 May 2002 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> Hi,
> Well, there isn't anything to prevent someone re-writing lynx in such
a
> way that it would function the same as internet explorer in WINDOWS.
> Except that it would be a lot of work of course. I agree, Internet
> Exploder will access more things than lynx. We can only hope that
> Netscrape will work better under Gnome than it does under WINDOWS.
>
> Jim Wantz WB0TFK
> On Tue,
> 14 May 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> > Also, you have to remember that just because we have access to a gui
doesn't
> > mean it's going to be easy. How many times have i heard blind
windowws users
> > complain that they did something but can't undo it or duplicate it
because
> > they're not sure how they did it in the first place. Having a screen
reader that
> > really allows you to sort out where you are and what you are
changing or are
> > about to change would be vital.
> > My biggest concern for linux right now isn't gui per se; my biggest
concern is
> > Internet accessibility. My main reason for being interested in
Xwindows at all
> > is the hope of being able eventually to use a browser that will
allow me to
> > access Internet sites that I cannot now access. I don't know if that
is a
> > realistic hope, but that is frankly my main concern.
> >
> >
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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)
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How to get an accessible telephone Janina Sajka
` Alex Snow
` Janina Sajka
` 'Georgina'
` Toby Fisher
` Alex Snow
` xwindows Jim Ruby
` xwindows Saqib Shaikh
` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows jwantz
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` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Octavian Rasnita
` xwindows Cecil H. Whitley
` xwindows Ameer Armaly
` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Steve Holmes
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` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Janina Sajka
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` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Will Smith
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Will Smith
` xwindows David Poehlman
` xwindows Ann Parsons
` xwindows Will Smith
` xwindows charles crawford
` xwindows Ann Parsons
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` xwindows charles crawford
` xwindows Steve Holmes
` xwindows Erik Heil
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Brian Borowski
` xwindows Jim Ruby
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` xwindows Igor Gueths
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` xwindows Rich Caloggero
` xwindows Jim Ruby
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Scott Howell
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` xwindows David Poehlman
` xwindows Cheryl Homiak
` xwindows jwantz
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` David Poehlman [this message]
` xwindows jwantz
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows jwantz
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Dave Hunt <
` xwindows Ann Parsons
` How to get an accessible telephone Scott Howell
` Janina Sajka
` Charles Hallenbeck
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