On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Grant Hedson wrote:
> I'm not sure how accessible gopher is by design, but gopher sites
> mostly deal in text, which should be easy on a screen reader. I can't
> comment too much beyond, that, however, because I don't know how
> much a screen reader depends on the underlying protocol (for example
> if it is geared towards HTTP for browsers, or if it really does just
> read text on a screen. If the latter, I think things should mostly
> be fine unless a file download is involved.)
When I did some web-design work, more than ten years ago now, the standard
for determining if a page/site would work well in a screen reader was to
view it in Lynx.
As another poster said, ASCII art is bad, and anything involving columns
is probably bad, but otherwise Gopher ought to be quite accessible for the
visually-impaired.