Links idea?

Nigel Stoppard stoppard at ntlworld.com
Thu Sep 30 14:01:05 UTC 2004


In terms of HCI, the having h for heading u for unvisited link and v for 
visited link are much easyer to remember.  I think brail mode can also be 
used with a speach synth too.

Thanks,
Nigel,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman at handsontechnologeyes.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Links idea?


>I too touch type, I guess my hand span is not accomodating enough to do it
> easily.  I have to take My hand off of home row in order to accomplish the
> task and then use my pinky for the shift key so that I can reach v with my
> forefinger.
>
> In another message, you ask Janina why not use the keys that people are 
> used
> to and I don't object to the keys, but would posit that we could use any
> keys we wanted to use since we are not using any of the windows screen
> readers and since we are talking mostly braille here so if we think 
> braille,
> we can perhaps come up with a sequence that would benefit braille users. 
> In
> other words, we are not tied to windows convention here.
>
> Johnnie Apple Seed
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nigel Stoppard" <stoppard at ntlworld.com>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Links idea?
>
>
> David,
> I have no problems my self pressing left shift and v but maybe that's
> because I can touch type?  Or is it because you have a physical handicap. 
> I
> believe in the next version of oralux sticky keys are being worked on.
>
> Thanks,
> Nigel,
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman at handsontechnologeyes.com>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Links idea?
>
>
>> This is fine although it feels like jaws for windows with ie.  I have one
>> question though, left shift is tough to press with v so could we not use
>> either shift key?
>>
>> Johnnie Apple Seed
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Nigel Stoppard" <stoppard at ntlworld.com>
>> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:23 AM
>> Subject: Links idea?
>>
>>
>> I had an idea to increase the brail mode functionality of the links web
>> browser and would like some feed back please.
>>
>> Pressing the h key will take you to the next heading.
>> Pressing the v key will take you to the next visited link.
>> Pressing the u key will take you to the next unvisited link.
>> Pressing the n key will take you to the next block of 25 characters or
>> more
>> that is not a link.
>>
>> The left shift key will work with ALL the above keys to move to the
>> previous
>> element.
>>
>> Pressing the enter key will toggle forms mode on and off when in a form
>> field to allow you to enter text.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Nigel,
>>
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