Re: LYNX-DEV www.sony.com and lynx?

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 12:49:22 -0400 (EDT), 
Wayne Buttles   <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>www.sony.com works for netscape and not for Lynx/2.7.1ac-0.22.  Anyone
>else see this problem?
>

That was a real education!  If you hit the star key in Lynx the front 
page is a mass of Link -Image stuff.  The L key or other information 
retrieval crowbars do the right thing in prying this glitzy site 
open.  Once inside, you find quite a number of normal links and 
client-side image maps.  Some of the Usemaps are even coded with real 
names; the casual user might not realize they are using one.  Others 
are coded so Lynx has only the URL's to go on.  Thank you for 
providing the crowbars.

You might wonder if this site works with Windows and a screen reader.  
If you don't wonder, delete [here.] ... Last week I installed 
Internet Explorer 3.02 for Win 3.1.  I use it with the Window-Eyes 
screen reader from GW Micro.  On a page like Sony's front page, you 
hear little more than "scroll up" and "scroll down", the two arrows 
on the scroll bar at the right of the screen.  You set up a user 
window near the bottom of the screen, to be read when you press a 
hotkey, for reading the status bar.  You also tell Window-Eyes that 
a particular mouse pointer shape represents "link". You have 
another hotkey which can toggle automatic verbalization of everything 
textual that comes to the screen.     On this Sony page, you want to 
turn this "speak all" function on.  There is no underlined text on 
this page, so the Window-Eyes "mouse next attribute" and "mouse 
previous attribute" functions won't work.  Microsoft's keyboard 
shortcuts (tab and shift-tab) are only in the Win 95 version.  But 
Win-Eyes has its crowbars, too.  Hotkeys are provided for moving the 
mouse pointer from one "clip" of information to the next.  As you move 
the mouse back and forth, the status line reads out the URL's, much 
like the User-mode, Advanced setting in Lynx.  MSIE cooperates a 
little by parsing the URL into a phrase like 
"shortcut to index.html at spe.sony.com"  which is more intelligible 
than 
[more] http://spe.sony.com/index.html.

I haven't tried client-side image maps in this browser with WinEyes 
yet; Lynx may be far superior.  I'm just starting to learn how to 
navigate frames with MSIE; in Lynx they are a snap.  

I wouldn't call Sony a particularly accessible site, although it gets 
better as you get closer to the content.  


-- Lloyd Rasmussen
Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the  Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress          202-707-0535
(work)       address@hidden    www.loc.gov/nls/
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