Note: was *to* CNN, cc to lynx-dev: Re: LYNX browser doesn't know JAVASCRIPT. Thus, inaccessible to BLIND PEOPLE who use lynx.

[David Combs]

This was something I sent to CNN about their
news-site, which used javascript on some
pages (which of course I couldn't get to), and
I sent also to lynx-dev, just so you'd know
that CNN was yet another javascript-baddie.

Except that I didn't do it via cc, but by a 2nd
item on the to-line.  Sorry -- made me look
like an idiot (which I maybe was, for doing
it that way! :-)

David

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0500, David Combs wrote:
> As you know, many blind people use LYNX as
> a browser.
> 
> Why?  Because it is 100% TEXT-ONLY.
> 
> Thus enabling their formatted output (from
> lynx) to be scanned by their software
> that then produces AUDIO of what it
> sees.  ie, "reads" the news item to them
> "out loud".
> 
> HOWEVER -- those pages of yours that use JAVASCRIPT
> cannot be handled by lynx.
> 
> SOLUTION: use an ALT on lynx, and show
> the text plain, without the javascript.
> 
> Thanks so much!
> 
> David Combs
> 
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