Mind if I ask why is this bad/how does it manifest itself?
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It's about the overall ease of use in a normal (read: not testing) context. Beyond the flood of words (overly verbose stuff can be really, really tedious to listen to using a screen reader), it could actually cause some real confusion (what IS this run-on thing?).
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Replying to @Nethermind @mwichary
If a link wraps all the content, the link text is everything inside of it: the alt text, the heading, the summary, metadata, etc. It's a horrible experience for screen reader users to hear all of that. The link in the image has 40 words in.pic.twitter.com/fy78PnnI58
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Replying to @fstorr @Nethermind
Thanks! I assume you’re suggesting the link should be around h2 instead? Is there a way to bridge that and a desire to have a nice big clickable target for people who use mice or trackpad?
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Replying to @mwichary @Nethermind
See next tweet :) The Guardian also uses a similar CSS trick for their blocks of news stories (or at least, they did the last time I checked).
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Replying to @fstorr @Nethermind
Can I ask you one other thing. There is another similar (in my head) issue where people use letter-like Unicode characters – for example to style their Twitter names – and those are poorly supported by screen readers.
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But I wonder: At which point in both of these cases it should be the responsibility of screen readers to adapt? I feel like the web is malleable and like language — sometimes what early on feels like bad patterns get canonized as proper ones.
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(See: HTML5 as a whole.) I keep hearing an argument that we need to adapt coding practices to screen readers – but is there another side of that coin where a pragmatic response would be for screen readers to adapt?
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I should know more about this, so apologies if I’m retreading old arguments.
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With regards to icon fonts, there's a usability/understandability concern that the web *does* adapt to fix. We can use the conventions we have to make it readable for everyone, regardless of AT: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Icon_Font_with_an_On-Screen_Text_Alternative …
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I didn’t mean icon fonts, but stuff like this: http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=This+is+pretty+fun+too.+Do+something+for+your+group+tag …
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