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From: Katharine Whitelaw
Date: Sep 17, 2004 8:39AM

Use Opera's Small Screen view (under the View menu). It will show you
how a page will look on a small screen with or without images and
stylesheets.

One note: some small devices don't show quite as well. The Opera view
is a best case scenario.

Katy

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Hi Folks,

I have been doing some demonstrations lately to potential clients about
the benefits of running an accessible Web site.

Of course, we all know that making a site accessible to AT also makes
it more usable and accessible to those using handheld devices. From my
experiences, showing can be significantly more powerful than just
saying, and I would like to be able to show just what a typical PDA or
cell user would receive.

I don't have access to either of these devices that are internet ready.
So my question is, what is the best way I can show what a PDA/cell user
would receive -- Lynx might come close to some hardware/software
combinations, but I know that many of the latest PDA browsers are *not*
text only ones.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, as always.

Best,

Leo.