Re: lynx-it URL

The ERT currently contains links only to The WAI Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines. I'm not sure what the WAI policy is regarding links to other
sites but, for now, I can add an appendix of useful sites.

Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
To: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>; Evaluation & Repair
Interest Group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: lynx-it URL


> I absolutely agree that it's useful to see how the page actually looks in
> something like Lynx.  That's sometimes shown me things that I
> missed.   Perhaps that could be added to the intro of ERT.
>
> Another tool that shows how a page looks in lynx is
>
> http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
>
> This has the nice feature that you can click on links and it shows how
they
> in turn will be displayed.
>
> But be warned: neither this tool nor the one Gregory mentioned  tells you
> how image maps are handled.  In the real Lynx, you can select an image map
> and see the ALT text of the contained areas (assuming the author put them
> in; otherwise it shows the urls).  These lynx viewing tools don't show
that.
>
> I once requested delorie to add that feature, but no time so far.  He
gives
> the Perl source though.  Maybe someone will want to work with him on that
> upgrade.
>
> Len
>
> At 10:45 AM 12/20/99 -0500, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
> >aloha, y'all!
> >
> >i'm not sure what the ER policy on linking the ERT to an external,
on-line
> >resources, but if that is a kosher mechanism for getting an author to
view
> >his or her output via a text-only, tables-incapable browser (as well as
one
> >that supports NOFRAMES), one possible way of getting authors to view
their
> >tables in a linearized fashion would be to provide them with a link to a
> >stable service, such as Scott McGee's Lynx-It
> >http://www.slcc.edu/webguide/lynxit.html
> >
> >gregory.
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >He that lives on Hope, dies farting
> >      -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
> >    WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC
> >         <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html>
> >--------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------
> Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D.
> Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and
> Department of Electrical Engineering
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>
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