[GTALUG] Linux and on line banking?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 11:41:09AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> > From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> 
> > My sincere hope was, given all the claims  to successful Linux access, someone
> > is doing this in the heart of Linux, its command line.
> 
> The heart of the web is the GUI browser.  Linux cannot change that.
> 
> Ideally, the web is identical for Windows and Linux users.
> 
> There are, of course, second order differences.  Screen readers, for 
> example.  I think that you've said screen readers are better on Windows.
> 
> lynx, links, elinks all try to use a TUI for the web but are pretty 
> hit-or-miss.
> 
> I don't know when you are using MS-DOS, but I would be surprised if you 
> could browse well from MS-DOS.

The setup involved is ssh running on dos connecting to a linux system,
running a text browser.  There is no GUI involved anywhere.

Text to speech is handled by a card made by DEC using drivers on DOS.

It's a rather unusual setup, but seems very functional, especially at
the speed of speech Karen is used to using on it.

If the site doesn't work with a text only browser, it causes problems
though.

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Len Sorensen