Comment by mwcampbell
6 years ago
> However, being a blind person, I guess I have to accept that Google doesn't care anymore.
This is not a blindness issue. It would be more accurate to say that Google doesn't care about geeks who cling to old ways of doing things long after there's a good reason to do so. As others on the thread have pointed out, blind people can use graphical web browsers with a screen reader, even under GNU/Linux. I know you know this; I'm pointing it out for the benefit of everyone watching the thread.
On the other hand I don't feel like I'm in a position to blame a blind user for clinging to something they already know instead of learning how to use a graphical browser. A lot of people in general have good reasons for sticking to what they know. Especially if what they stuck to worked fine until recently, and doesn't now only for some trivial reason that's easy to fix.
> It would be more accurate to say that Google doesn't care about geeks who cling to old ways of doing things long after there's a good reason to do so.
Is it that you can't think of a good reason to use text-based browsers at all or is lynx itself the issue? command line web tools like lynx and curl are pretty handy to have available.