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In all the author’s enthusing about his plain-text, paste-URLs-directly-into-the-text style, he doesn’t seem to be considering visually challenged users. Some f
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
In all the author’s enthusing about his plain-text, paste-URLs-directly-into-the-text style, he doesn’t seem to be considering visually challenged users. Some form of semantic markup exists for a reason: it really helps internet users reliant on screenreaders, and any attempt to post content for the long haul should take the disabled into account, too.
- selfhoster11 6y agoLinks aren't usually unaccompanied. They are usually placed in a context of a sentence or an entire paragraph. Even if the screen reader reads a raw URL as literally the word "link", it's still reasonable. You can even do something like HN does with the URLs next to article titles, list just the domain - or domain.com/username for sites like medium or github, just like HN started doing recently.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoIt is not just a matter of links. For example, in HTML, the span lang="XX" tag around quoted foreign-language text lets the screenreader know how to properly read those portions, instead of just outputting nonsense.