Text-based web browser

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A text-based web browser is a web browser that renders only the text of web pages, and ignores graphic content. Usually, they render pages faster than web browsers that include graphics because graphics need more bandwidth than text.

Screenshot of Elinks displaying Wikipedia's home page.

Text-based browsers are often very useful for users with visual impairment or blindness, since there is less for the computer to process and present. They are especially useful with speech synthesis or text-to-speech software, which reads content to users.

List of text browsers

See also