[worthless-trash]

What.. no, its text.. I've seen it in view source..

You're talking about yet another 'presented' data stream, which is different than the character stream.

One can rebuild these at will, im sure.

[dwb]

The source of a web page is parsed to form DOM and accessibility trees. The character stream of a TUI can’t be parsed into anything similar because it is not given in a formal language that can express those structures.

[worthless-trash]

We're going to have to disagree, if you consider the 'browser page' as the interface, it falls into the same problem you see with TUI's... you must reach into the DOM and accessibility information not via the character stream but with an API, the TUI has the same issue.

You've given me some great points to think about, thank you for the engaging conversation.