amazon?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Public sites like Amazon are supposed to incorporate css to this end. In 
fact  for a while, perhaps still?  there was a link on the main amazon 
site advertising that if one wants a more simplified  shopping experience 
one could go to the access page...which is now a disaster from a keyboard 
standpoint.


On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Personally, it would be nice if web designers would stop shoehorning
> JavaScript and other rich web stuff into pages where the same thing
> could be accomplished with plain, old HTML, would stop setting cookies
> when they aren't needed, and would do a sanity check to ensure their
> forms work properly with keyboard and tabbing.
>
> That said, a site-side fix to any problem only fixes it for that
> specific site, while a browser-side fix could in theory fix it across
> many different sites.
>
> Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much of a happy medium between
> lumbering behemoths like Firefox and Chromium that weigh hundreds of
> megabytes by the time you add up everything they need to run, and
> lightweight html pagers like links, elinks, and lynx that are arguably
> only good for accessing web 1.0 content.
>
> I'd love to ditch Firefox and the GUI in general, but for the sake of
> my sanity, I don't think I could make the move without at least the
> following features in a text web browser:
>
> Enough JavaScript/HTML5 support to display pages that use them to load
> content, ideally disabled by default with a easy method of toggling it
> on when needed or permanently allowing specified sites.
>
> Navigational hotkeys comparable to those provided when using a
> Graphical browser with Orca, NVDA, or JAWS(seriously, some of these
> are so handy I wonder how sighted people with mice(including my own
> past self) make due without them.
>
> The option to turn multi-column web pages into single column pages or
> to stretch the active cell in a table or element in a form to fit the
> screen width.
>
> And my dream web browser would probably nearly replicate the
> Firefox+Orca user experience minus the occasional sluggishness
> introduced by the GUI and Python while having auto-converting all
> clickables to something that can be activated with spacebar and/or
> enter/return and adds in basic keyboard shortcuts for
> temporarily/permanently allowing JavaScript/Cookies in the active
> tab/from the site in the active tab(If starting with Firefox-like
> keybindings, perhaps ctrl+J to toggle JavaScript and ctrl+K to toggle
> cookies adding shift to change the permission permanently).
>
> Sadly, I don't know the first thing about coding a web browser, and
> given how long the well known text browsers have been lagging in
> regards to the most essential aspects of the modern web, I can only
> hope their developers have their reasons for keeping their browsers in
> the past and aren't just too lazy/don't know how to modernize their
> projects.
>
> On 8/24/19, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Actually, sighted power users prefer text-based browsers when and where
>> possible in order to avoid javascript and all that goes with it.  Those
>> are decidedly not accessibility users in our sense but do want faster
>> access than can be had using graphical browsers.
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:32:51
>>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Subject: Re: amazon?
>>>
>>> Well, are you implying I should be forced to run a graphical
>>> screen-reader
>>> such as Orca, so I can shop at Amazon? I suppose if there were something
>>> much
>>> better than Orca, I would certainly try it out. My Wife wants me to
>>> try-and-shop at Amazon from a Chrome Book. I will experiment.
>>> Chime
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