Javascript for text mode (fwd)

[Linux for blind general discussion]

     It seems to me that to have anything that approaches what ORCA or a 
graphical screenreader can do with Firefox, you would need an interface 
between Speakup and the Document Objec Model in the text browser.  For 
example in ORCA you can use alt-shift-arow keys to navigate the 
structure of a table.  Speakup only knows what is on the screen, it has 
no idea about what is a table and what isn't.  This idea of Javascript 
in a text browser is possible, but to approach the capabilities of what 
you can do with graphical screenreaders is a very heavy lift!  It is 
likely not worth the effort because graphical desktops can run on fairly 
old hardware.




On 11/3/2022 9:46 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> For w3m, I did find w3m-js mentioned but that's both abandoned and i'm 
> not able to find a link to it with a few seconds of searching.
>
>
> Elinks can apparently be compiled with js support, but I'm not sure to 
> what level it owrks.
>
>
> Chrys was mentioning a while back about the text web browser, though I 
> don't recall if it was this list or in off list discussions, but I got 
> the feeling money is needed for it, and I'm not wanting to put up 
> thens of thousands to make that a reality. Few hundred, maybe, but not 
> thousands, or tens of thousands though.
>
>
> I'm curious to what extent elinks can be compiled with js though
>
>
>
> On 11/3/22 13:12, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> My understanding is that dialog's stated purpose is for creating
>> simple dialog boxes that can be used for user control in bash and
>> other shell scripts.
>>
>> Even if some of the major console browsers rely on dialog for making
>> part of their interface, I fail to comprehend how that assists with
>> the task of patching in support for JavaScript and other rich web
>> standards, much less gets around the issue of the maintainers of most
>> console web browsers seemingly having no interest in modernizing.
>>
>> And I suspect that's the second biggest problem here(the biggest being
>> web designers who use JavaScript everywhere and for everything instead
>> of only when its truly necessary): Its not that implementing
>> JavaScript is hard, its that the people who decide whether it gets
>> implemented don't want to implement it.
>>
>> Now, if anyone knows of a good, small, and reasonably fast JS parser
>> that's good about ignoring the useless eyecandy bits and converting
>> the rest to html or plain text as appropriate, that might actually be
>> useful for adding JavaScript support in an unofficial build of Lynx
>> the Cat or Links the Chain without having to write such a parser from
>> scratch.
>>
>> Sadly, with how edbrowse is built around such a completely alien
>> interface paradigm(ed is a line editor, and edbrowse inherited that
>> line-centric way of doing things) to other console browsers(most of
>> which have a more screen-oriented interface), even if it's code is
>> modular enough to easily isolate the JavaScript bits, they might be
>> written in a way to require significant alteration to work with screen
>> output instead of line output.
>>
>> As for Browsh. It kind of defeats the point of using a console browser
>> as its just a console frontend to Firefox, so you've still got that
>> behemoth and all of its GUI dependencies installed and even if the GUI
>> bits aren't running, you still have the core of Firefox running...
>> Plus, you still miss out on Orca's navigational hotkeys, and the last
>> time I tried it, it was constantly refreshing what was printed to the
>> screen in a way that made using a console screen reader with it
>> basically impossible.
>>
>> As for eLinks, is there anywhere to get a .deb of it with the
>> JavaScript turned on? Or is it one of those off by default, so its off
>> in the vast majority of pre-built packages and might as well not exist
>> for users who don't routinely compile from source?
>>
>> And while on the subject of JavaScript support or lack thereof in
>> console browsers, anyone know where w3m stands? Not that I have any
>> attachment to it, but its the console browser that comes up most often
>> after the homophonic triplets.
>>
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