[MPlayer-users] Any Suggestion as to How to Get This NPR File?

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:06:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	A couple of times, now, I have wanted to hear certain
> reports from NPR and found exactly what I wanted on their web
> site but couldn't download them due to javascript.  As I like to
> say, javascript is a cure for which there was no known disease.
> The world caught the cure, however, so what some of us need is an
> antidote to the "cure."
> 
> 	As a UNIX user who is also blind, I do not have access to
> mozzilla, firefox, etc which require either MS Windows or X to
> run.    We've got lynx, links and w3m which are all text-based
> browsers which don't do anything useful when confronted with
> ecmascript.  After all, whose javascript do you emulate?  Is it
> Microsoft or Netscape?
> 
> 	Is there any good way to get past this and download the
> good stuff when we come across it and it is locked up in one of
> these type sites?  The story I was trying to read was about
> yellow jacket nests growing to large sizes after Hurricane Katrina.
> 
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5756746
> 
> This isn't exactly the story of the century, but it is
> representative of the normal technical problems in trying to use
> the NPR site so I thought I would ask to see if there is any kind
> of work-around.
> 
> 	Many thanks for any ideas.

This won't solve the problem for other sites, but as for NPR I would
strongly suggest forwarding the email you wrote to this list to their
webmaster, along with a suggestion on how to make the streams easily
accessible. They just might be receptive to it.

Ultimately, the ADA in theory makes it _illegal_ for businesses
operating in the USA to have a website that is not accessible to blind
users. If only we had a court ruling to back this interpretation up...

Rich