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Re: LYNX-DEV installing lynx for win95
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Lloyd G. Rasmussen |
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Re: LYNX-DEV installing lynx for win95 |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Mar 97 13:32:23 EST |
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:11:19 -0500 (EST),
Alice Pinard <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hi, I have a blind friend who is having trouble getting his netscape to
>cooperate with his speech program so I thought we'd try seeing if the lynx
>port to win95 would work better... I used winzip on it, set a STARTFILE,
>clicked on lynx.exe and .... the computer froze up.... um, what might I
>have done wrong? I tried reading the readme that came with the zip as well
>as one that was on the web page I got it from but neither mentioned
>anything that needed to be set in the lynx.cfg file or anything else....
>suggestions?
>
I assume he has a DOS screen reader for use in DOS sessions. Most of
the Windows-only screen readers don't handle character-mode screens
such as those put up by that version of Lynx. I don't have Win 95
yet, but use the Lynx 386 version and Bobcat successfully under DOS
with the Vocal-Eyes screen reader, plus using Lynx through modem and
telnet connections. Generally when I talk to blind people about
access to the web, I tell them they have two choices: If you want
RealAudio and other multimedia, then you have to use Netscape or MS IE
with a Windows screen reader, and put up with a lot of quirks. If you
want the best possible access to the text from web pages, you use
either Lynx or PW Webspeak.
-- Lloyd Rasmussen
Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress 202-707-0535
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