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I understand that, but when I open your page in lynx I don't want to read text without any formatting because there are no direct equivalents to "bold" or "italics".



People actively block Internet Explorer. They've probably never heard of lynx / links / elinks / w3m.

I'm happy when they don't use idiotic alt tags. If they manage to use good alt tags I'm really happy.

Accessible web design is seen as some freakish niche need, and is often relegated to something to do later, if ever.


Well, then just ignore them --or show them with bold and _italics_, Markdown style.

Although, I think modern terminals can do bold fonts, e.g this gives you bold in bash:

echo -e "\033[1mtest\033[0m again"




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