Sight-impaired people hit as BoM blocks some textmode browsers
Friday, 30 April 2021 06:30
Sight-impaired people hit as BoM blocks some textmode browsers
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The Bureau of Meteorology has started blocking the text browsers lynx and w3m from accessing its website, preventing many sight-impaired readers from using the site.
Many sight-impaired readers use lynx and other text-based browsers and a speech-to-text engine like festival to read these pages.
Russell Coker, a senior developer with the Debian/GNU Linux distribution and a member of the Linux Users of Victoria mailing list, told
iTWire that if lynx was blocked, then it would be difficult for about half the people using braille readers.