Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx Broswer...

[Foteos Macrides]

Al Gilman <address@hidden> wrote:
>[...]
>To be fair, they are making major strides.  A Windows screen
>reader (one of the more capable ones) is actually a hybrid device
>that reads not only from the screen buffer but also from an
>"off-screen model" or access-dedicated API such as MSAA to get
>attributes of the content that don't show on the visual screen.
>
>Many blind users continue to find the Lynx UI has superior
>usability.  But the competition is no longer flat out unusable.

        There is also the issue that the style sheet specs are
being developed with explicit concern about providing blind
users ways of optimizing extraction of actual content suitably
for synthesizers and braille.  Whatever problems the Big Two
have with their initial implementations, they will eventually
be corrected, and users with synthesizers or braille will be
able to set up appropriate override style sheets, further
increasing the usefulness of GUIs.  It's a very exciting
prospect, particlarly now that Netscape will be distributing
sources.

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