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> I'd have to test this, but I'm pretty certain screen readers will not know how to properly navigate your content if you aren't providing structured data marku
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
> I'd have to test this, but I'm pretty certain screen readers will not know how to properly navigate your content if you aren't providing structured data markup.
Do screen readers operate directly on HTML now?
Because presumably they look at the DOM. And the resulting DOM is identical, whether or not you close your <p> and <li> tags explicitly, or include your own <head>, <html> and <body> tags, or whatever.
Try it.
- mbrock 10y agoYes, the parent of your comment is a typical misunderstanding of screen readers.
- busterarm 10y agoAre you sure? Because I do a lot of testing against VoiceOver and it has two modes, a DOM traversal mode and "grouped" mode which parses HTML. The latter will often do really weird things, like look at the ids of your tags. And this mode on VoiceOver up until 10 years ago was the default. In the Windows world, yes, you're totally right.