Text-based browsers are often very useful for users with [[visual impairment]] or partial [[blindness]]. They are especially useful with [[speech synthesis]] or text-to-speech software, which reads content to users.
In[[Progressive orderenhancement]] forallows a site to be compatible with text-based web browsers without compromising functionality to more sophisticated browsers, it needs to be designed with [[progressive enhancement]], meaningas the content is readable through pure HTML without CSS or JavaScript.<ref>{{cite web |title=Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement |url=https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement |website=GOV.UK |access-date=27 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
