Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 00:03:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Jude Dashiell <dashiell AT clark DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: beta form impossible to complete
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I'm about to reinstall msdos 6.22 on this machine and remove all of
opendos.
I tried filling out the form for downloading opendos 7.02 beta 2 and
couldn't manage it
using lynx on our shell account.
Whoever put that form together certainly needs to go and learn accessible
html design.
This is something that the dosbeta address was made well aware of before I
sent anything
to this lis  This is also one instance where no matter which way
-show_cursor is
set in lynx you still can't fill out the form with a speech synthesizer
screen review package.
One of the weird things about that form is you get dropped onto the first
blank
and no text to the left of that blank shows up indicating what's expected
in the way of an answer.
With a form that poorly designed, there should be a clear form button
on every page.
That blank with disconnected text shows up before you're even asked for
your name on
this lynx browser.
That form wasn't easy in the past, but has now become impossible here.
There's another package that's supposed to allow you to submit html forms
by email after having gotten those forms.  I may as a last resort find out
if it will work and
perhaps manage a submission after all.



Jude <dashiell AT clark DOT net>