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Text Links in Lieu of Image Buttons for Comment Commands in the Lynx Site Scheme
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For comment pages on the Lynx site scheme, I would like to have text links instead of the image buttons/icons for the comment commands in the comment headers.
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The shade of grey for the comment header for a screened/visible comment changes, but that does not seem like a sufficient difference to me.
Changing the alt text on the buttons to be contextually correct for screened/visible and frozen/unfrozen comments will make a difference to anyone using a screen reader or other browser with no images. I do not think that removing the images would make much of a difference to these users, since they would not be viewing the images in any case.
I would want to make sure to get feedback from sighted but visually impaired people using the Lynx site scheme, to see if a text link would be more helpful than an image, or if the images are helpful.
Thank you for bringing this up!
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Maybe this could be a toggle-able setting in Viewing Options, so as to take other folks into account who may prefer the icons for the reasons you gave?
Agreed on the shade of gray -- it's a subtle difference... too subtle for me to notice when I'm not paying enough attention. ;)
Hmmm... *Thinks about poking a certain someone on her Friends list about this who just might fit the bill*
Sure thing! :D
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The only real issue I can think of is the general dislike of change and that it's hard to get an idea of the opinion of most lynx users on the matter. But you can't avoid all changes just because someone might prefer things otherwise.
(fine, I'll log in first, since I apparently can't prove that I am human to comment otherwise)
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Gotta <3 ReCAPTCHA. XD
Speaking of which, you have reminded me of yet another suggestion I need to submit in the very near future: implementing an alternative (or alternatives) to ReCAPTCHA for devices, etc., that can't support it. Some folks require it even for non-anonymous comments, etc.
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I was trying to login with my comment, but apparently even putting in a username and password didn't keep me from needing to do the captcha. Usually I can do them, but I was just totally failing at them this time. The two words aspect made it much harder, as it wasn't clear which word was first (one was on the bottom left and the other on the top right, dividing the two characteristics that we use for word ordering).
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