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> Note: Don't use "display: none" to hide the accessible HTML tree, because then screen readers will ignore it. That sounds like a use case for @media queries

• mwcampbell 8y ago
  That opens a whole other can of worms. Some blind people don't want a website or web application to be able to detect that they're running a screen reader, and by extension, that they're blind. [1] I'm not sure where I stand on that issue. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547239
  • mastazi 8y ago
    Media queries are instructions that the client can use, unlike other methods like user-agent there is no info being sent over to the site. Of course a malicious page could implement js code to try and understand what bersion of the page the client is actually rendering, but it would be quite easy for the client to circumvent that.
    • ago 8y ago
      Media queries can leak info to the server easily without JavaScript: https://matt.traudt.xyz/p/YF4ciVY6.html https://matt.traudt.xyz/p/YF4ciVY6.html
      • mastazi 8y ago
        For a client that did not want to send info, this would be even easier to prevent than the JS scenario discussed above...
        • anoncake 8y ago
          Especially for a screen reader: It can fetch all images intended for seeing people anyway while ignoring images intended for screen readers.
  • anoncake 8y ago
    I bet there already is a way to detect that.
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