> The terminal is a grid of cells that contain individual characters. Screen readers and other accessibility tools cannot know whether those characters constitu

> The terminal is a grid of cells that contain individual characters. Screen readers and other accessibility tools cannot know whether those characters constitute runs of text or separators [...]. In the default state (not on the “alternate screen” and with wrapping enabled; i.e. in ls not vim) terminal emulators do record which runs of text belong together and which don’t, in order to be able to rewrap lines if the user resizes the window. (This is as universal as it is unspecified. Which is a shame, because it’s highly non-obvious how this should interact with e.g. programmatic cursor movement.) I know nothing about the accessibility story, but the “grid of cells” picture is simply untrue.