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> People who use screen readers would probably be very supportive of plain text Web sites. I beg to disagree. Plain text doesn't offer any support for embedded
by mrzool 4y ago
> People who use screen readers would probably be very supportive of plain text Web sites.
I beg to disagree. Plain text doesn't offer any support for embedded metadata, which are vital for screen readers. With just plain text you have no way to tell apart a header, footer or aside from the main content.
> Web devs usually do a lot of work to make a Web site accessible.
Yes, they do a lot of work. Mostly using semantic HTML and embedding text descriptions in data attributes.
This should go without saying: Plain text is less accessible than well written, semantic HTML, not more.