speakup and links browser

Tue Oct 6 15:18:56 UTC 2020

Given the person was using links the chain, that is what I used for my 
testing.
Links are numbered, in both browsers, helps with locating actual desired 
items in my personal experience.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Lynx the cat has two options that greatly inhibit inline images and image file links:
>
> Show images (!)                  : [ignore___]
> Verbose images                   : [OFF__________]
>
> On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> Okay, after fixing the link so there was no slash before the org part of
>> the  path, here is what I did.
>> Granted, as stated, I am not using speakup, but if you have links the
>> chain configured to its best advantage, this sould not be a problem.
>> by which I mean you have the links are numbered feature turned on.  Much
>> as with lynx the cat, numbering the links lets you skip past images
>> without issue.
>> I have no idea which file  you desired, there is allot of them.
>> Still, I used my arrow keys past the things like parent directory and the
>> like to reach one of the  binary images listed.
>> When I hit entre I got the message
>> download,
>> details of the file name is a binary image, would you like to save or
>> display   this file?
>> Such is what I normally get when downloading, if you move your arrow key
>> to the right you get an s for save, a d for display, sometimes an extra
>> like  show full headers, and c to cancel the  process.
>> I cannot imagine why speakup would prevent that from working
>> comparatively.
>> Indeed the files menu, I hit escape and arrow down, is there, but i am
>> unsure it is the best choice here.  When I am saving a formatted document I
>> use the files menu.  but other files like this one or audio or whatever
>> hitting the entre key starts the process for me, and I have links are
>> numbered set so I can reach the desired download.
>> Does this resonate?
>> Karen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>
>>> https://bouncer.gentoo/org/fetch/root/all/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64/
>>>
>>> What I did with speakup was to try moving with the tab key onto the
>>> first stage3 link andthat didn't work.  So I tried with the arrow keys
>>> and that didn't work either.  Speakup said it had worked, but speakup
>>> lied.  How I know is the stage3 file ends in .tar.xz and the only thing
>>> links was willing to download was an image file from that location.  So
>>> next I left braille terminal alone since I had enabled that before going
>>> into the site and it didn't do anything for me.  Finally, I numbered
>>> links in the links configuration settings under html options then saved
>>> those html options two separate menu entries then I keyed in the correct
>>> number for the stage3 file to download and that was the only way links
>>> would get the job done.  What's worse, I got no notification that the
>>> download was complete from links.
>>> The other way that's possible is with a bash script where site and
>>> download are two variables defined and using wget with the -bc options
>>> since that way you can know when your download is complete.
>>> You use grep to search wget-log for the word saved and that line will
>>> let you know your file download is complete.  No comment on validity of
>>> the download, that's a matter for sha512sum.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 18:45:08
>>>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: speakup and links browser
>>>>
>>>> How about share the location  so others
>>>> can see if they have the same download issue?
>>>> no idea about speakup, but I use links the chain for downloading often.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I tried downloading a file from a website using links and couldn't
>>>>> download the file.
>>>>> Using speakup I was able to cursor onto the desired file or that's what
>>>>> speakup told me.
>>>>> However when I tried to download that file I got offered an image file
>>>>> from another cursor location on the screen I did not want.
>>>>> I think this is more of a links problem than a speakup problem and am
>>>>> wondering if it's possible to configure links in some way to clear this
>>>>> problem.
>>>>> I don't know what the braille setting would have bought me since I have no
>>>>> braille display.
>>>>> As things stand, I had more success with wget and a bash script I wrote.
>>>>> For that reason I'm going to share this one with the list.
>>>>> The script could probably be improved by adding a site variable to the
>>>>> download variable for wget to process but I haven't done that yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>>>>> #file: s3.sh - gentoo stage3 download script
>>>>> download="stage3-amd64-20201001T120249Z.tar.xz"
>>>>> wget -bc
>>>>> https://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/root/all/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64/$download
>>>>>
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