Last year AOL was sued by the National Federation of the Blind because their
interface was inaccessable to the blind and deaf/blind, who require a text
interfacre for use with screen readers and braille output.
In an agreement to avoid suit, AOL has agreed to produce a text based interface
to AOL. There is a time frame they have to comply with this so I would expect
that it AOL becomes accessable to DOS and text users, that Linux use would
also be there.
Just a guess.
Ron
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Mark Hillary wrote:
> I have read that there is a version of AOL that works on linux, it is beta, and it
>was only meant to be used inside of AOL. Some on put the beta on the web or something.
> I will see if i can find out where I read it.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > AOL
> > (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20000907091315)
> >
> > Fr�d�ric VAN ACKER writes "Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to use AOL as an Internet Provider with linux Mandrake ? I heard
>that AOL used some specific connection protocol. Is it true and is there a solution ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot, Fred. "
> >
> > SHORT ANSWER IS NO.
> > Long answer is: AOL uses some really funny protocol,
> > and if there is any way to use AOL as provider under Linux,
> > I am not avare of it. I heard some rumor that "next version of AOL" should work
>under Linux/with Linux/whatever,
> > but I have no idea if this is true, nor when is this
> > "next version" due. Very strange internet provider.
> > If anyone knows of a way to use AOL+Linux, please tell us.
