most modern linux commands that are run from a shell (whether nushell or bash or whatever) are already fairly powerful, and are easily adaptable to creating tabular output, especially when more complex pipelines to do that are encapsulated in a script.
probably more to the point, accessing any shell via http usually requires a separate webserver process (shellinabox or gateone), is ajax-dependent (ajaxterm), is a java client (mindterm), or some combination; the latter two may render html that's weird enough to be unrecognizable by screen readers, and the first requires a dedicated server. and all of these, along with the general concepts of what are called "reverse shells", often come with difficult and subtle security exposures. since nushell is just a shell like any other, if your screen-reader setup can parse the output of any other shell (like bash), it can similarly parse the output of nushell, i would think. and using the relatively well-secured ssh setup, could be just as effective. On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 09:03:03AM -0700, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I have a Partly Baked Idea (PBI) regarding shell access via HTML. In reading > about nushell (https://www.nushell.sh), I was intrigued by the fact that many > of its commands (e.g., cal, ls) output data in tabular form. This allows > other commands to process the data, making certain sorts of pipelines more > effective. > > My PBI is that, if nushell were accessed via HTML, a screen reader could let > a blind user navigate the rows and columns of any tabular output. I'd like > to get some early feedback on this idea. Does anyone think it might be > useful? What issues would need to be resolved? (Inquiring gnomes need to > mine...) > > - Rich Morin _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
