[NFBCS] no display in old browser

Brian Buhrow buhrow at nfbcal.org
Sat Apr 13 18:32:17 UTC 2024


	hello Doug.  Actually, curses is quite capable of handling dynamic updates to terminal
screens.  Remember, very dynamic web pages already don't work wel with screen readers even on
graphical browsers.  So, the issue would be, can your screen reader keep up with the changes.
I'd argue that it would still be a problem, but because the screen reader is only concerning
itself with a fixed text based window, its ability to cope with dynamic changes is actually
much better than the screen reader in a graphical environment is today.  This is especially true
if one turns off automatic voice output and just looks at the lines one is interested in.  I
think the larger challenge is how to map objects and actions in the document object model that
don't necessarily translate well to a text based environment.  For example, do you create a
graphical window, which is never displayed to the user, to render graphical objects, simply to
allow the javascript that wants to manipulate such objects to operate as it wishes?  Or, do you
try to render those graphical objects in some kind of textual manner?  So that, one could, for
example, still download and upload photos from social media, for example.

-Brian



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