I am also very interested in this topic.  I'd like to
have a Dime for every misguided soul who sat there or stood there
with a straight face and told me that lynx was old and obsolete
as if they knew what they were talking about.

        I think we should be pushing lynx support as a low-cost
technological solution to making web sites generally accessible.
Don't get me wrong.  This isn't the answer to every problem, but
it is kind of one of those things that is right under our noses
if we could just make it widely known.

        I don't see any stabilization of the arms race presently
going on between screen reader vendors' attempts at making
Netscape or Internet Explorer accessible and the need to
constantly buy new updates and feed the monster.  It's like the
carnivorous plant in "Little Shop of Horrors" that keeps
screaming, "Feed me!  Feed me!"  Maybe it is more like the Mafia
demanding protection money so that nothing bad happens to our way
of life.  I can think of a hundred metaphors for the high-priced
commercial approach to access today, and none of them are
complimentary.

        Lynx is not obsolete, but a solution to a problem that
web server developers don't realize fills a need that still
exists.  Somehow, that is the message that needs to go out so
that there is a clear target to aim for and we get results that
we really wanted.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group