lynx

[Tom Masterson]

The only other caveat with lynx is that like most text browsers that I 
am aware of it doen's handle javascript which means some pages will be 
unusable in part or full depending on the amount of javascript used.

I don't find the file numbering option very useful but that is personal 
preference.

Tom

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Geoff's advice is absolutely on the mark. Lynx with Speakup continues to
> be a powerful, and very accessible browser. However, you do need to
> learn Speakup's screen review commands to use lynx effectively, because
> it doesn't work the way Windows screen readers made Internet Explorer
> work.
> 
> My advice is to start lynx with two key command line options--then make
> these your defaults in the Options menu (accessed with by o) so you
> don't have to issue this long command every time:
> 
> lynx -show_cursor -number_fields
> 
> This will cause the system cursor to track your focus on hyperlinks,
> which is where you go with up and down arrow, or with TAB and Alt+TAB.
> Yes, that's correct, Alt+TAB, and not Shift+TAB, which has always been
> the Unix default.
> 
> The Lynx for users who are blind document for which you were asking a URI is at:
> 
> http://leb.net/blinux/blynx/
> 
> You can also access it on the help screen of Lynx, accessible by ?, but
> this wouldn't help you if you don't yet understand how to read documents
> in lynx.
> 
> Janina
> 
> 
> Geoff Shang writes:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > To read the output of Lynx or pretty much any other application in the 
> > console, you're going to need to use Speakup's screen review keys.
> > 
> > By default, you can use the numpad 7 and 9 keys to read the previous and 
> > next line respectively, and 8 to read the current line.  The same logic 
> > applies to 4 5 and 6 (words) and 1 2 and 3 (characters).  You can use 
> > numpad-insert plus numpad 9 (page up) to go to the top of the screen, and 
> > numpad-insert plus numpad-2 (down arrow) to read from the current curso 
> > position to the bottom of the screen.
> > 
> > To check out what all the speakup keys do, press keypad-insert plus F1 when 
> > in Speakup and either up and down arrow through the list or try pressing 
> > keys to see what they do.  Press Space to leave keyboard help.
> > 
> > In lynx, you can use page-down or Space to go to the next screen, and 
> > page-up or b to go back a page.  As posted already, insert and delete move 
> > the screen display up and down one line (something I previously didn't 
> > know).  Home and End go to the first and last screen of a document, as do 
> > control-A and control-E respectively.  Up and Down arrows move you to the 
> > next and previous page element (or next and previous line in a multi-line 
> > edit field), and right arrow follows a link and left goes back unless 
> > you're in any kind of edit field.
> > 
> > To get a full and hopefully up to date list of keystrokes in lynx, press 
> > "k" when in lynx.
> > 
> > Note that unless you use a blinux lynx config (wich I did see somewhere but 
> > don't know where), lynx will not automatically make the cursor track where 
> > you are in a document.  You need to turn on "show cursor" in the options 
> > screen which is not exactly straight-forward, or by setting
> > 
> > show_cursor=on
> > 
> > in your .lynxrc config file.
> > 
> > Hope this helps you get started.
> > 
> > Geoff.
> > 
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