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The 1999 Yahoo, like the site in the article, is a directory, of course there are going to be a lot of links. The 1999's main flaw is a complete lack of headings (and the "buttons" on either side of the logo are image map links without accessible names).

The site in the article might have overdone it with links, having two links close to each other both going to the same destination, but from the images I think they overdid the number of headings. There are headings that are nothing but film titles and no content following. But the film title headings are heading level 4 so Simon could choose to ignore them and only read the level 2 headings which do seem to be for identifying groups of content within the page.

Simon can use Ctrl-F to look for particular text in the page, same as anyone else, if he's looking for something in particular. If he's just browsing, he's going to have to read all the links until he finds what he wants, same as anyone else. He can't visually skim in two dimensions but his screen reader can read the text much faster than a inexperienced user could understand.