A text-based web browser is a web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 that renders only the text of web page

Web page

A web page or webpage is a document or information resource that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext...

s, and ignores graphic

Computer graphics

Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....

 content. Usually, they render pages faster than web browsers that include graphics because graphics need more bandwidth than text.

Text-based browsers are often very useful for users with visual impairment

Visual impairment

Visual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...

 or blindness

Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...

, since there is less for the computer to process and present. They are especially useful with speech synthesis

Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...

 or text-to-speech software, which reads content to users.

List of text browsers

• Edbrowse
• Emacs/W3
  Emacs/W3
  Emacs/W3 is a text-based web browser for the GNU Emacs text editor, written primarily by William M. Perry and entirely in GNU Emacs Lisp. Emacs/W3 is part of the Sumo package for XEmacs, and the submodule for fetching an URL is currently part of the GNU Emacs CVS repository.As by the maintainer,...
  
  
• Line Mode Browser
• Links
  Links (web browser)
  Links is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support , supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.It is oriented toward visual users who want to retain many typical elements of...
  
  
  • ELinks
    ELinks
    ELinks is a free text-based console web browser for Unix-like operating systems.It began in late 2001 as an Experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the name...
    
    
• Lynx
  Lynx (web browser)
  Lynx is a text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals and is very configurable.-Usage:Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys, or having all links on a page numbered and entering the chosen link's number. Current versions support...
  
  
  • ALynx
    Alynx
    ALynx is an ASCII-Web browser for Amiga / which is a port of Lynx version 2.4-FM.The current stable version of ALynx is 1.29 and is still available to be downloaded from the Amiga Aminet Repository.Version 1.31 is also available....
    
    
  • DosLynx
• netrik
• Net-Tamer
  Net-Tamer
  Net-Tamer is a shareware DOS PPP dial-up access program, which requires no TSR packet driver. It can web browse, get/send e-mail, get/send usenet messages, FTP upload/download a file, TELNET to another internet address, or check the time and date. It is a both robot and a navigator...
  
  
• retawq
• W3m
  W3m
  w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser. It has support for tables, frames, SSL connections, color and inline images on suitable terminals...
  
  
• WebbIE
  WebbIE
  WebbIE is a freeware web browser designed for screen reader users. It re-presents web pages as text with a caret, allowing users to use their existing screen reader or assistive technology to read it, but is not self-voicing, unlike Home Page Reader.-History:WebbIE was developed as a student...