text only renderer

[jaytaph]

How hard (spoiler: harder than we think) would it be to make a text based renderer. This could become the base for a reader-mode.

[jaytaph]

https://web.dev/articles/critical-rendering-path/render-tree-construction

[emwalker]

Related to (but not exactly the same as) a text rendering mode is the challenge of accessibility, screen readers, etc. I suspect getting accessibility working either requires the introduction of a fourth tree (DOM, CSSOM, accessibility tree, render tree) or adding additional capabilities to the DOM. Perhaps good to keep an eye on this whole question as well.

[jaytaph]

screen readers work with a separate accessibility tree. I think we have to check how this all works, because I suspect that we can build this tree at the same time as a regular dom tree

[nicoburns]

The https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit library is a cross-platform abstraction for accessibility trees that is widely used in the Rust ecosystem.