Hard to view Anandtech Forums with Lynx

[Ben98SentraSE]

My good friend is vision impared and uses lynx with a Dectalk card to get the screen read to her. She can view most web content and I've told her all the cool discussions on here, but it's very hard to read it since the formatting in lynx is all nasty. I tried it and tried clicking on the "Text Format" button but lynx says

Badly formed address javascript:WinOpen('printthread.cfm?catid=44&threadid=228843','700'

There's more there btw that gets cut off by my text window. Should lynx give this error or is it a coding problem? If I bring up the text window in my GUI, right click, properties, and give her that link it looks good, but hitting the Text Format button won't work for lynx. How can this be remedied?

 

[Jason Clark]

Lynx just won't tollerate all the javascript and style sheets.. sorry I really wish we could help but i don't know if there is much we can do. Isn't there any programs that will work with IE for her?

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

Well normally she works in a Linux text environment. She has a Win2k box that she does homework and stuff on that she can connect with, but she's used Linux forever and she much prefers it, not to mention her Dectalk card talks a lot better with simple 80x24 text that the Hal screen reader software for Windows. I don't know anything about Javascript, but is there any way that "Text Format" button could be made to work with Lynx?

 

[Jason Clark]

Its a simple image link it doesnt get much simpler than that to view a text version of a thread.

 

[Zorba]

Zuni: I think he meant without the Javascript.

 

[Jason Clark]

K I made it so textthread has no javascript in it, hope that helps.

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

Well it's not viewing the text page that is the issue. I can open the text page on my Windows machine, right click the text box, send her the link, and it comes up formatted just fine. It's clicking on the "Text Format" link that doesn't allow her to get to the text format page. The way you had it before she could read, but only if I looked up the link here and told her what it was so she could go straight to it.

 

[Jason Clark]

Welp sorry the javascript is absolutely necessary to open the window thats all i can do

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

Thanks, Zuni. I think I found a relatively simple solution myself. The normal thread we all see is this

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=42&threadid=231094

The text thread is this

http://forums.anandtech.com/textthread.cfm?catid=42&threadid=231094

So all she needs to do is change "messageview" to "textthread" and she's good to go.

 

[Jason Clark]

Yep that should do it.