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They could... except: a) It would be completely inaccessible to blind users; b) Sometimes devs want to be able to give users some choice, like copying text, a
by Sophira 5y ago
They could... except:
a) It would be completely inaccessible to blind users;
b) Sometimes devs want to be able to give users some choice, like copying text, and this is impossible with your proposed method.
These two reasons alone mean it's undesirable for devs to use these, and they're problems that Canvas addresses - albeit by letting the devs have that choice, but not the users.
- tshaddox 5y agoThere are several other ways to prevent copying text or making it difficult, some of which probably don't impact screen readers (although I'm skeptical that many developers would be intent on preventing the copying of text while also caring about screen readers). And, of course, if the developer wants to allow copying text, that's trivial. How does canvas give a developer more ability to choose which things the user can and cannot do?