LYNX-LEARNERS provides a supportive environment through which new can ask questions of, and learn from, more experienced users. LYNX-LEARNERS also functions as a forum for brainstorming, as well as for the development and sharing of browsing strategies, shortcuts, and tricks.
Although LYNX-LEARNERS is not intended to function as an exclusively blindness-specific list, most of its members are visually handicapped, and hence it is an ideal source of assistance, advice, support, and encouragement for the blind or visually-handicapped user.
In the words of the listowner, Jeff D. Doran:
The goals of this list, lynx-learners, include and are barely limited to the monstrous task of helping each other fully learn 'lynx'. We certainly cover related topics as needed: Internet, World Wide Web, hypertext, HTML (the HyperText Mark-up Language), Usenet news groups, 'ftp', 'gopher', 'telnet', E-Mail, Net security, text editors, Unix, speech synthesizers (the hardware that converts text into electronic speech), SOSAS (speech output screen access software, the program that sends text from the terminal screen to the speech synthesizer), subtopics within those major topics and whatever experiment or Internet source or example we happen to deal with at any given moment. Is that all clear? Excellent, I'm dazed, too! <smile> I enjoy watching beginners on the Web, including myself, fully describe the basics of learning to crawl on the Web and grow into Web junkies and gurus (junkie I am, guru I intend to be...). I put bits and pieces of our learning on my Web pages so that others can follow our progress at their leisure (and we have something to refer back to).To subscribe to LYNX-LEARNERS, type:... I would like us all to keep track of who has questions that the list is still working on answering. In other words, I would like to be sure that all questions at the level of the list as a whole (beginners' and intermediate questions at this time) are answered quite thoroughly. It's a conversation involving many people at many levels of experience in many things. I want us all to be sure that beginners and intermediate 'lynx' users are quite clear about the wonderful uses of 'lynx' and the Web. Naturally, we, beginners and advanced users, might say things that are confusing at first, but the idea is to be certain that the confusion gets resolved over time. I'm not worried about how much time. As far as I'm concerned, the list could develop over night (so to speak) or take years. I'm intensely eager to be sure that everybody in the world has Web access, but I have learned that my intensity far overbalances most of the world's desires to follow my particular paths. So let's take as much time as we each need to be certain that all beginners on the list understand what this crazy stuff is all about.
subscribe lynx-learnersin the BODY of an emessage, and send it to:
majordomo@sasquatch.comA hypertext and plain text archive of past posts to LYNX-LEARNERS, as well as several support files, can accessed using the following URL:
http://www.sasquatch.com/~jddjeff/Internet/E-Mail/lists/lynx-learners/To contact the listowner, Jeff D. Doran, email:
jddjeff@sasquatch.comFor more information about lynx-learners, please consult:
http://www.sasquatch.com/~jddjeff/WWW/lynx/lynx-learners/ll_info.html