[ale] How Do I Join?

[Jim Kinney]

Lynx makes a great browser to feed into a screen reader for the
visually impaired. I use Lynx on occasion when I'm on a server with no
X and I absolutely must get data off the web to fix something.

2009/2/21 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Linda L. Hull. <llhull at b5.aehallh.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > Lastly, NO FLASH ANIMATION!!! (and minimal abuse of javascript to move
>> > things around on the page please. Some of the geezers still don't have
>> > X running so they use links and mutt exclusively. :}
>>
>> Lynx
>>
>> http://lynx.isc.org/release/
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(browser)
>>
>> Lynx Viewer
>> Delorie online viewer enables you to view your site in a text browser.
>> www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
>>
>> I love Lynx
>>
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> Craig B. and Linda L. Hull
>> Advocacy for Life's Difficult Moments
>> Educational, Legal, Medical
>> ADA Consultant
>> 007 Editorial Services / Proofreading
>> 5080 Lisa Court
>> Douglasville, Georgia 30135
>> Phone/Fax/TTY: 678-935-0227
>> Craig: chull at b5.aehallh.com
>> Linda: llhull at b5.aehallh.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Personally, you sound a bit arrogant to me.  If you want to help
>> > > support
>> > > the website, the first thing you should do is find out who currently
>> > > does that.  Then, you should contact them and discuss your
>> > > concerns/ideas.  Throw something together, stick it out there and see
>> > > what people think.  If people like it, then you'll have to wrestle
>> > > with
>> > > the folks who currently maintain the site.  By the way, I think you
>> > > own
>> > > them an apology.  You said their work was ugly. That is your opinion,
>> > > and as we know, everyone's got one of those.  How about providing some
>> > > substance?
>> > >
>> >
>> > As the sysadmin for ale.org, I can speak to this.
>> > We are running wordpress for the site itself. Please feel free to set
>> > up your own wordpress installation (ain't open source grand!) pound in
>> > your design ideas and send a link to me (and the rest of the whiners
>> > who _HAVEN'T_ volunteered to refresh the look :-) and I be more than
>> > happy to take a look at it. I guess you would need to package it up as
>> > a wordpress theme. We currently use a theme from many years ago.
>> >
>> > I don't view the current site as "ugly" but rather "dated".
>> >
>> > Lastly, NO FLASH ANIMATION!!! (and minimal abuse of javascript to move
>> > things around on the page please. Some of the geezers still don't have
>> > X running so they use links and mutt exclusively. :}
>> >
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>> > James P. Kinney III
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> Wow, I am totally amazed.  Are you seriously telling me that people use text
> web browsers in this Web-2.0-world!  Can you all share with me the
> advantages of text web browsing?  I have got to try it!  Now THAT's
> adventurous!
>
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