Re: lynx-dev Link numbering and keypad mode

[David Combs]

On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 05:37:35PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> 990216 Laura Eaves wrote: 
> > 990216 Klaus Weide wrote:
> >> form fields just aren't first class links.  Real links have destinations,
> >> you can do commands on them that you can't do on form fields,
> >> they make sense when LISTed, and so on.  Personally I don't find
> >> numbering form fields very useful, especially for textarea lines.
> > numbering form fields is extremely useful
> > for blind & visually impaired users,
> > as it obviates the need to havigate a screen
> > with arrow keys while using speech, braille or screen enlargement.
>  
> i use it daily to pick items from a pull-down menu in a select field
> which chooses sections in the Toronto Star newspaper:
> eg i know by heart that  7 Enter Downarrow Rightarrow  gets Business.
> LE's addition of form-field numbering, with  123g  &  123p ,
> was an enormously useful benefit for jumping around well-known documents.

I find it just WONDERFUL (numbered form-fields for text entry).

Before it, I had to either TAB down to where I entered something --
maybe 2/3 of a page down, with 20 links before it to be jumped
over -- or, once I wised up a bit, a jump to the non-entry link
just before it.  Somehow search "/" didn't do quite what I wanted.

Last night on Amazon I ordered a bunch of books (to save money
on shipping, you batch your book-orders into one big order),
and man was it faster via that new feature.  Especially
since I was hitting the same set of forms again and again,
you remember the entry-area numbers from one book to the next.

Really great!

Thanks all for the super code-hacking!

David