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Compatibility with screen readers that blind people use.

Moreover, fuck Google and non standard practices in general.




Lynx is not a screen reader. (In fact, it's considerably less accessible to blind users than a typical desktop browser -- as a console application, it has no way to provide accessibility data to a screen reader.)

A screen reader is a tool like JAWS or VoiceOver which interacts with desktop software (including web browsers like Chrome or Safari) to provide information about what the user is interacting with.


>as a console application, it has no way to provide accessibility data to a screen reader.)

FFS, you had console screen readers in Linux since forever.

And even OpenbSD, with yasr. It works fine with speech-dispatcher.

Less accesible? Maybe in your limited world, but this is "Hacker" "News".

Well, I guess the new IT generations are even less aware of TTS systems since 1998 or so.




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