funny, I just read the source.  Seriously though.  If you can't get
there with jfw and ie, you cannot get there with lynx.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Ford" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: February 07, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: Graphics-based browsers vs. text-based browsers with
screen reade rs, II


Hi Dick,

I must respectfully disagree with you.  I'm all for the graphical
browsers
but believe in teaching people Lynx as well.  It is one of the fastest
ways
I know of to figure out many of the problems that plague graphical
browsers
and screen readers.  You can fire up Lynx and visit the same web site
and
and often determine if the web site is loading strange graphics or
other
technologies that are a problem.  You can often also find quick paths
to
meaningful content behind these blocking front doors in this fashion.



At 05:36 PM 2/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
>It is really an injustice to teach someone to use lynx in my opinion.
How
>far would someone get trying to get a position in the workforce
relating to
>computers and survive without being able to handle Windows?
>
>Dick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: * EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ann Parsons
>Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 4:05 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Graphics-based browsers vs. text-based browsers with screen
>reade rs, II
>
>
>Hi again,
>
>Sarah, in considering this question, one must also look at the
>computer user.  Unfortunately, one size does not fit all.  David says
>that the best thing is to stay with a graphical browser.  This may be
>true for him.  He is a competent windows user.  He is an expert.  Not
>all people are experts in using Windows.  There are tricks and tips
>that must be learned before one is an expert in anything, and judging
>what other nonexperts can and can not do may be difficult for
>experts.
>
>Another thing occured to me as I was rereading my first reply.  There
>are two distinct purposes for web sites.  The original one was to
>present text in a non-linear format that could be expanded and
>cross-referenced and so on.  The other use of the web is fast become
>to do anything else one would do on the Internet.  You can read your
>mail, shop, pay bills, listen to radio, play games and so on.  It is
>for this purpose of web use that a graphical browser is most
>effective, especially in the area of multi-media.
>
>On the other hand, if you're examining text, then you want a text
>browser!
>
>What can I say, there *is* no right answer here, if you think
>seriously about both what is being done on the web and its users.
>
>Ann P.
>
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