How do sites handle blocked images

vasa1 · 17. Sep 2010, 08:18 AM

My latest interest is to run a browser with all images blocked for all sites. Apart from saving bandwidth, it helps with a slow connection (which some of us have to deal with).

While I can get all the non-image information from most sites, some sites do become difficult, if not impossible, to navigate.

If anyone (with a slow connection) has nothing better to do, why not try a few sites?

Awgeewhiz · 17. Sep 2010, 03:23 PM

How come there are no sites in braille?

Ritho · 19. Sep 2010, 10:45 AM

I saw some signs on a bathroom the other day that had braille on them, but someone had wisely slipped each one into a hard plastic cover to protect them I guess.

Awgeewhiz · 20. Sep 2010, 01:03 AM

While on the subject, why are there braille instructions at drive thru teller machines?

vasa1 · 20. Sep 2010, 03:51 AM

Mods:

Please the title of this thread to something about braille. Thanks.

Doobie · 21. Sep 2010, 05:46 AM

Vasa, you might just have to resort to websites designed for the blind.

miskairal · 28. Sep 2010, 09:18 PM

vasa I know exactly what you mean as I browse with images turned off to save bandwidth and speed things up on my slow satellite internet. I use Opera and with a single click can turn images back on if I get to a page where I want them. Alternatively as you move your cursor around a page you will eventually hover over a link and the address is shown down the bottom. If I still can't navigate a site I leave. I think it's a shame that so amny internet looks like a giant adverts these days with unrelated images and all the flashing garbage.

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vasa1 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 400	How do sites handle blocked images My latest interest is to run a browser with all images blocked for all sites. Apart from saving bandwidth, it helps with a slow connection (which some of us have to deal with). While I can get all the non-image information from most sites, some sites do become difficult, if not impossible, to navigate. If anyone (with a slow connection) has nothing better to do, why not try a few sites?

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Awgeewhiz Full Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: USA East Coast Posts: 94	How come there are no sites in braille? __________________ I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.

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Ritho Foundation Editor Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 1,391	I saw some signs on a bathroom the other day that had braille on them, but someone had wisely slipped each one into a hard plastic cover to protect them I guess. __________________ The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention.

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Awgeewhiz Full Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: USA East Coast Posts: 94	While on the subject, why are there braille instructions at drive thru teller machines? __________________ I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.

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20. Sep 2010, 03:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
vasa1 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 400	Mods: Please the title of this thread to something about braille. Thanks.

21. Sep 2010, 05:46 AM	#6 (permalink)
Doobie Full Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 39	Vasa, you might just have to resort to websites designed for the blind.

28. Sep 2010, 09:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
miskairal Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Qld, Australia Posts: 129	vasa I know exactly what you mean as I browse with images turned off to save bandwidth and speed things up on my slow satellite internet. I use Opera and with a single click can turn images back on if I get to a page where I want them. Alternatively as you move your cursor around a page you will eventually hover over a link and the address is shown down the bottom. If I still can't navigate a site I leave. I think it's a shame that so amny internet looks like a giant adverts these days with unrelated images and all the flashing garbage.