SPEECH OUTPUT CRASH (test page)

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

I tested the web page in question using text based browsers.  
   http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/  (problematic with jaw)
  
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:24:54PM -0500, STEN-CLANTON, ALBERT E wrote:
> Greetings!  The correspondence below concerns my crashes when trying
> to use the Debian site's link to the development tools of the package.
> More precisely, it concerns the loss of the speech output from my
> screen reader, JAWS, which I use because of my blindness.  
...
> [snip problems accessing http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/  with
> Jaws]
> 
> This page is 100% valid HTML 4.0 Transitional so I believe the problem
> with this page is its size, it's over 150 kilobytes.  On my pc Jaws
> isn't responsive either when opening that URL, but after I tried
> editing the page locally to make it (a lot) smaller, Jaws ran just
> fine.  So my guess is that Jaws can't handle pages of this magnitude.

lynx: after displaying
  Read 105 of 151 KB of data, 146 KB/sec, ETA 0 sec.
then
  Bad partial reference!  Stripping lead dots.

links and w3m: no problem

So problem may not be just size !!!!  Let's see...

Just for your test, I uploaded a modified (problem free) file as
jaw-test.html to the debian web server.  Please test this solve your
problem.:

http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/jaw-test.html

This file changed very bottom of the web page from:

<hr noshade width="100%" size="1">
Back to: <a href="http://www.debian.org/";>Debian Project homepage</a> ||
<a href="../../../">Packages search page</a>
<hr noshade width="100%" size="1">

 to:

<hr noshade width="100%" size="1">
Back to: <a href="http://www.debian.org/";>Debian Project homepage</a> ||
<a href="../../">Packages search page</a>
<hr noshade width="100%" size="1">

This was the place causing problem with "lynx" and this change solved
this problem for me on lynx.  (I needed to upload it to web server since
error message was very short display timing.)

HIH,

Osamu

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