Comment by CAMLORN

Sadly the screen readers do actually do a not-so-good job of this, but I think that may in practice be more a function of poor UI for switching indicators on and off. You get 80 cells at most, and even the most conservatively unambiguous abbreviations for controls are going to use 2-3 letters of that. Hit a line with a few links and half your display is gone. I'm not enough of a braille user to know how to go about fixing this for sure, but there is definitely an inefficiency. Ending up in a "but my favorite text-based browser is more efficient" position because it turns a bunch of this off, or because it's configurable in a way your favorite screen reader isn't, or etc is something I can see happening, but nonetheless the real issue there is that screen readers need to be fixed, not that we should go ask all the sighted people to support Lynx.

NVDA's flow for deciding which formatting you care about is to tab through a list of 30 checkboxes. They have hotkeys when the dialog is open but it's still less than ideal if, as I suspect, braille users need to change them more often. And there is also a potential education problem around teaching braille users that the way they get more efficiency is to change them around all the time.

My solution in the world of infinite resources would be to make the cells 5 or 6 dots high so that you can put the formatting in line with the characters it's for. That's something I thought would be useful for a long time. But sadly we live in the world where good braille displays will forever be expensive and thus doubling the price isn't doable.