Issue 602893: cgitb tracebacks not accessible (original) (raw)

The cgitb tracebacks use colour ALONE to highlight which line caused the exception. This doesn't show up on text-only browsers such as Lynx, and it is not helpful to blind people or those with similar special needs. These people have to count the lines, or set "context" to 1, or look at the HTML source to see the real traceback in the comments.

It would be most helpful if there were at least an option to indicate the line that caused the error in some additional way (as well as the colour), such as by highlighting it with some punctuation character to the left of the line number.

(Python 2.2.1 under Debian Woody)