[bcab] Links list utility in Supernova/HAL?

I am trying to help someoone with an internet course using Supernova 7, and 
recently came up against
a HAL  issue with the links list utility which I cannot seem to resolve.    The 
problem is, that the 
links
utility does do a good job of listing all the links on a given webpage (so that 
they can be browsed
using the up & down arrow keys in the required order, i e tab order, a to zed 
order etc).  It's a
great tool.   However after each link listed in the list utility is focussed 
on, it insists on 
reading out
the full URL to that link.

This really is a problem because sometimes those URL's are exceedingly long.   
I am always griping
about long URL's I know, and no matter what views were given in my previous 
discussion about this, I
am utterly convinced that excessively long URL's are both an accessibility and 
usability obstacle.

This is a genuine case in point, instead of the links list utility being able 
to announce the name
of one link then move on the to the name of the next one, it says the name of 
the first link, the
URL of that link, then the name of the second link followed by the URL of that 
link.   It does not
exactly help my student, who is new to using speech, to hear

"home"  followed by h t t p colon slash slash gobbledy gook home dot h t m l
"contact" followed by h t t p colon slash slash gobbledy gook contact dot h t m 
l
etc etc.

In summary this effect renders the links list utility far less effective than 
it could be.   In the 
end
I had the student using the up/down arrow keys to go up and down the list, with 
his right hand,
whilst keeping his left hand ready on the left CTRL key to silence the speech 
as he did so, to stop
him from having to listen to all those long URL's being babbled out!

I hope I have explained this problem clearly.    What I'm specifically 
wondering is whether anyone
knows IF the links list utility can be set to NOT babble out the full URL of 
every link in it's
index?  I have searched the Supernova 7 manual for a solution but to no avail.  
And I don't believe
that the JAWS web page links lister (invoked by Insert F7) has the same design 
fault?

Any help appreciated!

Leon Gilbert.
Editor, www.vipnews.org.uk
Links to blindness & visual impairment in the news daily, since 2002.

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