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> There's no way to block this without breaking accessibility. Then sooner or later someone will break accessibility just to prevent this. And everyone will fo

• josephcsible 5y ago
  Wouldn't that be illegal under the ADA?
  • miki123211 5y ago
    It depends. There's nothing in the ADA (or any similar legislation) that says that all services ever created need to be accessible. Whether such legislation applies to you depends on a lot of factors, whether your software is used in workplaces, government and education being the most important (but not the only) ones. Sometimes it's the organization that's only allowed to pick accessible software, not the developer that needs to make the software accessible. Sometimes it's okay to use inaccessible software as long as an accessible alternative exists and can be used by those who need it. If someone cared enough to break accessibility this way, they could implement a switch that conditionally disables accessibility where legally permitted. I believe Kindle already lets publishers do this, come to think of it.
• miki123211 5y ago
  It's not that easy any more. In modern iOS versions, Voice Over has an AI-powered screen recognition module that does not rely on the accessibility information that the developer provides. As far as I know, it's not possible to prevent the use of this module, not without making the text on the screen unreadable to any OCR engine. This module isn't perfect, in fact, it's far from perfect, but for something as simple as extracting a bunch of text that already appears on the screen, it would probably work.