On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 11:41:09AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
My sincere hope was, given all the claims to successful Linux access, someone is doing this in the heart of Linux, its command line.
The heart of the web is the GUI browser. Linux cannot change that.
Ideally, the web is identical for Windows and Linux users.
There are, of course, second order differences. Screen readers, for example. I think that you've said screen readers are better on Windows.
lynx, links, elinks all try to use a TUI for the web but are pretty hit-or-miss.
I don't know when you are using MS-DOS, but I would be surprised if you could browse well from MS-DOS.
The setup involved is ssh running on dos connecting to a linux system, running a text browser. There is no GUI involved anywhere. Text to speech is handled by a card made by DEC using drivers on DOS. It's a rather unusual setup, but seems very functional, especially at the speed of speech Karen is used to using on it. If the site doesn't work with a text only browser, it causes problems though. -- Len Sorensen