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Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser

102 points zhenyi | 1 comments | 10 Sep 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.29s | source

Accessing google.com in Lynx now shows:

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ryao ◴[10 Sep 25 20:49 UTC] No.45203473[source]▶
I wonder to what extent visually disabled internet users are affected by this, since I can imagine at least some of them using lynx with an on-screen reader for a terminal emulator.
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1. duskwuff ◴[11 Sep 25 17:16 UTC] No.45213918[source]▶
Not to any meaningful degree. Lynx (or other terminal-based browsers) would be an extraordinarily poor choice of browser for a non-sighted user, as it lays text out visually in the terminal (e.g. using color and indentation to distinguish between types of text) and does not provide accessibility cues. Those users are much better served by standard GUI web browsers.