Message-Id: <199711231440.IAA16284@endeavor.flash.net>
To: <dashiell AT clark DOT net>
From: Cross+Roads <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
CC: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 09:40:55 +0500
Subject: Re: beta form impossible to complete
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  What is the service that can convert the html pages you mentioned below?
        Thanks,
           Mark

On 1997-11-23 dashiell AT clark DOT net said:
   >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>

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