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

[Brian Buhrow]

	hello.  I encourage you to try a more recent version of lynx.  That said, I think I
understand a bit better where you're coming from.  The trick here is, you are correct, the
perfect nonvisualinterface has not yet been developed.  Aside from the problem of dynamically
generated web pages, which I admit is a substantial problem, however, I think  lynx maps well
into interfaces which work well in a 2-dimensional space.  That includes Unix/Linux based
screen readers like Yasr and Speakup which tell you the location of text on a given terminal
page, as well as multi-line braille displays like the Monarch and the Orbit Slate series.  Even
better, the lynx interface could, in theory, give blind users equipped with refreshable tactile
graphic displays like the Graphiti or the Monarch, access to images on web pages in addition to
the two-dimensional text itself.  In my mind, it's the lynx user interface that's really
valuable, not the browser itself.  So, if an alternate browser grew a lynx-like interface, that
would be fantastic!



-thanks
-Brian
On Sep 17, 10:55am, <kperry at blinksoft.com> wrote:
} Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Is there a feature-compatible text-based browser
} Then let me back track.  I have not used lynx since 2001.  That is when I
} Switched from Linux as my default machine. Things sound like they are
} different so I will check and see if the interface is as bad as I remember
} before I give up on it.  I still am not sure I want to be locked into lynx
} as an interface. I can be convinced but  I have been working with things
} like the Graphiti, the Dot pad, the Monarch etc. I am really interested in
} trying to make something uniquely braille display / speech oriented with
} multiple screen ability etc.  I also am not sure the current world of screen
} readers and display drivers are where I want to be either.  I am playing
} with a lot of stuff because the user interface for blind people is just
} lacking.
} 
}