Re: Orca tip for web browsing

[Cody Hurst <churst31 verizon net>]

hi themuso

  I'll certainly check that out and if it is as good as you say it is
then I recommend this more so to others. Put firefox on hold...


Cody
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 16:20 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:42:56AM EST, Cody Hurst wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> >   As we all know, Firefox is still behind in terms of accessibility. But
> > there is an upside...I have just tried Lynx, the terminal text based
> > browser, and it works wonders. It takes a minute to get a hand on it but
> > tabbing threw links could be better handled. You can use flat review to
> > read the page and it works great. The only real hard part is links but
> > other then that it is very useable. I'm sorry if this information is
> > already known, but it seemed so easy I didn't know if anybody really
> > used lynx.
>
> May I suggest one better than that? Elinks surpasses both lynx (L Y N X) 
> and links (L I N K S). Extremely customizable, got tons of options to 
> choose from, and the keyboard shortcuts are all configurable, so you can 
> set it up the way you like it.
>
> Personally< i have my arrow keys move the cursor around like one can in 
> a text document, so it is easy to read the page line by line, etc.
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