Hi. 4 years after this bug was submitted without a single reaction of the maintainer meanwhile, I'd like to re-explain why this is still an issue for the Debian Accessibility community.
From my personal POV, I've changed SHOW_CURSOR to TRUE in /etc/lynx.cfg about a hundred times or more on new installations of Debian machines since I've submitted this bug. Agreed, that alone doesn't merit changing the default, please let me elaborate: There are in fact several reasons why SHOW_CURSOR should be true: * Screen reader users need this option to be able to use Lynx. This is mostly for people with visual disabilities. Console screen readers do only have the "hard"-cursor to guess what might be highlighted at the moment, and position the "reading cursor" there. If the user is working with speech, this is usually the line that is spoken when the cursor moves. For braille display users, the braille display is positioned where the cursor is (a braille display usually only consists of one line of refreshable braille cells usually about 40 or 80, i.e., it can not display the whole screen at once). With this simple method, lynx is easily navigateable because SHOW_CURSOR:TRUE forces the cursor to go to the beginning of the currently highlighted link. Additionally, remote users of a Debian server that do use assistive technologies would also need SHOW_CURSOR to be set to TRUE. Agreed, they might as well provide some personal configuration, but it is IMO useless extra work, lynx might as well DTRT by default. * As someone else mentioned in thsi bug report, if SHOW_CURSOR is FALSE, the lynx configuration system is essentially not usable to people with visual disabilities. So setting the option to TRUE via the config system is no option. Yes, there is the config file, and the command-line argument, but especially newbies might be confused by not knowing these options. * Serial console (alike) usage scenarios might also prefer to have SHOW_CURSOR:TRUE. * Other essential Debian components already follow the practice of not hiding the cursor. whiptail (and therefore the Debconf console dialog stuff) do have a visible and sensibly placed hard-cursor. This is great, since it makes Debconf prompting nicely accessible to people with visual disabilities without requiring them to configure something special in the first place. It would only make sense to have an app like lynx to follow this behaviour by default. elmo: Could you please add your thoughts on this issue to this bug so that we at least know why no reaction has come from you in the last 4 years? -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
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