Posted by cwdjrxyz on 06/05/07 04:16

On Jun 4, 10:40 pm, cwdjrxyz <spamtr...@cwdjr.info> wrote:
> On Jun 4, 6:54 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > In article <tm3cj4-hdv....@xword.teksavvy.com>,
> > "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > You can also leave it out altogether. What are the bad
> > > > consequences beyond failing validation because of it?
>
> > > You've obviously never looked at such a page in a text browser such
> > > as Lynx.
>
> > Looks like I better revisit the business of decorative images and
> > alt="" for text only browsers. For odd reasons there has been
> > trouble on my machine installing and using Lynx. But I will
> > redouble efforts now and also want to actually hear various
> > screen readers, also something I have not had an easy run finding
> > to run on my set up.
>
> If you go tohttp://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/ValidatorFormyou
> can get a screen shot of your page on several OS/browser combinations.
> The Lynx 2.8 browser is available for both Windows and Linux OSs. It
> apparently also is available for MAC users who will buy the pro
> desktop tool. Perhaps they think those who own expensive Mac computers
> can well afford to pay something :-). I have had fairly good results
> with Opera's voice command/reader feature. It will even do sex
> changes. You can convert a page written by a man to a woman's voice.


Go to http://www.cwdjr.info/wine/williams.php to hear a recording of
Opera reading a portion of the FAQ of alt.food.wine. You will need a
Real player to hear this. The reader has a bit of trouble with some
non-English words, but usually not enough to cause serious trouble.
The sound is rather mechanical. This was recorded a few versions of
Opera back, so the sound may have been improved in recent versions.

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