[brailleblaster] Re: Snippets
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:28:11 -0500
When I download a snippet with elinks I see the Java source code. It is
uncompressed, and I can just save it.
John
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 04:13:53PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Further to what you say Susan, the SWT snippets page works fine with lynx in
> Linux text consoles. The only thing one needs to be aware of when using lynx
> to get a snippet is that it seems to be compressed and given the .gz
> extension and needs decompressing with gunzip. Brltty works with lynx on
> Linux, and I haven't had issues with other screen readers and browsers.
>
> Michael whapples
> On 16 Jun 2011, at 16:04, Susan Jolly wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> > Do you have trouble getting snippets?
> >
> > When I go to the page below I see a lot of links. When I left click on one
> > of the links using IE in Windows, it brings up a dialog giving me the
> > choice to either open or save the file. (Alternatively I can right click
> > and get a popup where I can select the Save Target As ... item.) When I
> > select save, a second save as dialog opens asking me where to put the file.
> > Once I've selected save in the latter dialog, the desired snippet file
> > gets downloaded to my computer.
> > This is a very common transaction and I'd think it would be supported in
> > screenreaders.
> >
> > http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
> >
> > Susan
> >
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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