Re: [Lynx-dev] Is There a way to Bypass Progress Messages?

[Karen Lewellen]

speaking only for myself,  when I pause speech things catch up just fine. 
If I  want to avoid those  messages I can do so easily.  So easily in 
fact that  I would not change them even if I could.
Helps me keep track of things that are important.
Is just me of course,
 but that certainly illustrates that no two screen reader users are 
the same.
Karen



On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >         This is such a minor issue but I am curious to know if there
> > is a way to get lynx to not print connection-related progress
> > messages?
> >
> >         They are very helpful if something is not right but when
> > things are routine, those of us who use screen readers listen to
> > them even though they probably flash on screen for a very brief
> > time. An example of the messages I refer to follows:
> >
> > Looking up mobile.wunderground.com
> > Making HTTP connection to mobile.wunderground.com
> > waiting for response.
> >
> > I have an alias in my .bash_profile that calls lynx as follows:
> >
> > alias lynx='lynx -nostatus'
> >
> > and that does suppress some of the progress messages but it would
> > be nice just to go right to hearing the page as it comes up.
>
> hmm - reading the code, I see that "informational messages cannot
> be suppressed.  There are about as many calls for those as there
> are for "status messages".
>
> Possibly some pruning (say, with a new option "-noinfo"),
> though it would take some work to avoid suppressing messages
> that you actually need.
>
> I had thought that reducing the time for each of the message types
> dealt with user-nuisance.
>
> #INFOSECS:1
> #MESSAGESECS:2
> #ALERTSECS:3
> #NO_PAUSE:FALSE
>
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