This article is meant to be an additional note to the article on WWW
access by the blind that I wrote last month.
It deals with the cursor tracking problems in Lynx.
On many Unix systems Lynx does not work as I stated. Specifically, it
does not place the cursor on the first word of any of the links. This
detracts from many of its uses by the blind.
However, there is a command line solution for the cursor problem.
Normally, one starts lynx by simply typing the word lynx on the command
line of a system where it is installed and pressing enter. However, this
solution requires a change to this method of using lynx. Type the
following at a shell prompt:
lynx -show_cursor
and press enter.
Lynx should now act as I have suggested earlier. Please let me know if
this solves the problems for you.
P.S.
There is one other, small matter, that I failed to mention in my
article. You can use the tab key to move forward one link. This is a
feature suggested to me by several users. Hope it helps.
Well, 73 for now.
Darrell Shandrow at Arizona State University
Mentor: Internet Direct Mentorship Program!
Member: National Federation of the Blind
(The complete information access agenda - You print it you braille it too!)
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