On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:51:16PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > Does the browser have the ability to create a screenshot after a fashion? > Need to document something for a site owner that will show for them, even if > my screen reader presents it differently. > Thanks, > Karen > >
Hi Karen, If I'm right, you have a visual impairment and you're relying on a screen reader: you're the person who was also asking about reverse engineering a DOS program a couple of weeks back, who is using WordPerfect and a Kurzweil screen reading program? I don't use links, though I have installed it to check. I normally use elinks which is similarly capable. There's also lynx and w3m available all of which will work in a console. I'm assuming you don't have a GUI, have no use for a graphical browser - much of the advice from sighted users may not be exactly relevant. links does have the facility to dump the text to an output file. You can force a dump of the page source, of the page as text (which is close to what the screen reader will parse and includes alt-text for images) I'll use the BBC home page as an example because it should be well-formed HTML, should have alt-text and be semantically correct : links https://www.bbc.co.uk -dump > BBCfile The -dump writes it to stdout (the output device, normally the screen) The > character redirects the output to a filename, here BBCfile This command produces the formatted text output. links https://www.bbc.co.uk -dump -force-html > BBChtml This is the HTML - it may not include alt-text comments and some styling links https://www.bbc.co.uk -source > BBCsource This is the whole thing, HTML, CSS, no formatting just a stream of data. [It reads like robot vomit]. The first one should give a text file output of the web page which should be readily understandable. As far as the other browsers go, elinks is a later version forked from links which seems to have more advanced document dumping commands. I only really read the man page but could try more for you if you wish, since I often use elinks to test pages in text mode. If you run any of these commands to output to a file, then you can just mail the file to someone. I hope this helps - happy to help with more if I can (my day job involves me in accessibility and screen reader compatibility is very much in my future :) ) With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater
