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Does a screen reader actually care about <article> vs. <section>? I think they just ignore those tags.
by toomim 4y ago
Does a screen reader actually care about <article> vs. <section>? I think they just ignore those tags.
- otippat 4y agoAccording to this article, atleast Apple's VoiceOver seem to use the html5 tags to parse a webpage differently: https://dev.to/satyakresna/html-semantics-in-web-accessibility-3mha https://dev.to/satyakresna/html-semantics-in-web-accessibili...
- JadeNB 4y agoI think waiting until screen readers adopt technological affordances to start using those affordances is putting the cart before the horse. One could ask why a screen-reader-tech maker would bother paying attention to tags no-one uses—might as well put as much semantic information out there as we can, and let different people consume it in the ways that make most sense for them.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt’s an impossible situation. We are expecting website owners and screen reader companies to come to some kind of consensus without ever collaborating or establishing a standards. And just expecting that vaguely guessing what the other wants will work.