princess pancake ​
Would be nice if TUI applications showed what they look like
I'm not installing something without seeing a screenshot of it

Another problem is accessibility, I can't imagine how many TUI applications are invisible to vision-impaired users, does ncurses even have a solution for this?

TTYs are super cool, but do we do we still need to encode all information as a matrix of characters?
Jul 28, 2023 at 1:44pmWeb
Show thread💝 Liv / Cooki 🍪Jul 28, 2023
@natty Yeah TTYs are super cool, especially Natty
Show threadKevin Karhan Jul 28, 2023

@natty true, true...

Whilst #screenshots are the easiest to do, I do wish most applications would at the very least support #tty output and at least he somewhat useable on a braille screen and/or with TTS.

#WhatsMissing is making #accessibility a priority and do proper #testing by #VisionImpaired and #blind people!

Show threadLisPiJul 28, 2023

@natty #Emacs / #Zmacs (#LispMachine Emacs with deeper access than GNU Emacs) say no.

#EmacSpeak iirc does make use of non-textual information about data it has available as well.

You can attach objects and arbitrary attributes to text in Emacs (or indeed you could conceptualize the text as just an incidental storage location for pointers to those objects).