[BRLTTY] Is there a feature-compatible text-based browser

[Brian Buhrow]

	Hello Ken.  I have been thinking about this very idea for a long time.  In fact, it
occurred to me that it might be possible to bolt lynx onto the front of a graphical back end
browser.  Basically, a proxy that  lynx talks to over a local network link which is actually a
straight html rendering engine for the backend graphical browser.  I think T.V. Ramen of Google
does this for himself inside Google.  I started this work some years ago, but was discouraged
from continuing before I got very far with the observation that it would be too hard to
maintain a separate browser from the mainstream.  Having said that, I think the idea is still
very relevant since, as it's turned out, screen readers have pretty much had to implement a
separate user interface for the browsers they support.  When I say separate, I'm talking
relative to the visual interface most sighted users use when operating a browser.  the way I
use a browser versus the way my sighted partner uses a browser is so different we might as well
be using different programs even though we're both using Chrome.

	Is this a project you think could get funded?  I'd love to work on it and make it a
reality.
-thanks
-Brian