Re: [orca-list] Lynx how many people use this browser

[_mallory <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

It's useful when you're in a terminal. w3m and elinks work better in
many regards though (like tables).

There are pockets of blinks using terminal text browsers for the 
web (as seen recently on the Discourse software discussion thread
where a webmaster states his blind users use lynx), but the majority
of people use "regular" browsers.

WCAG2 certainly doesn't state anything about "it should work in
lynx", but it can be an easy way to test your content flow as a
developer and if you're building with progressive enhancement, that
it indeed works in something like a text browser. Developers testing
in Lynx do it more for that than for actual Lynx users.

_mallory

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:52:09AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> I use lynx as my main browser and only use firefox when lynx cannot
> access a page that I absolutely have to access.
> Having said that, I do not think that the w3c's accessibility
> standards force a developer to be lynx compliant.
> I tried using elinks quite a long time ago and at that point, its
> javascript support was not reliable enough.
> HTH, Willem
>
>
> On Mon, 9 May 2016, Sean Murphy wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I am wondering how many people still use Lynx  as their preferred browser   As people are still using it 
> > as an accessibility testing browser. All search I have done on this browser indicates it's not use by many 
> > blind users. So I'm trying to verify if this is true falls or not
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > My experience is the part
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