Comment by tomcooks
6 years ago
Compatibility with screen readers that blind people use.
Moreover, fuck Google and non standard practices in general.
6 years ago
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.