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   Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-May-2026 15:47:38 JST Eric Eggert

   > Each screen reader interprets your HTML differently.

   Fun fact: No screen reader interprets HTML these days.

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     Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)'s status on Sunday, 10-May-2026 15:47:36 JST Kara Goldfinch

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     @yatil I'm pretty sure I've said the same fairly recently, forgetting about the DOM, and I use the things. Wonder when they stopped looking at the html.
     I remember using JAWS 3.2 which had a reformat page command, which did things with the code including inserting the word "link" before each link. Those were the bad old days.

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     Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-May-2026 15:49:25 JST Eric Eggert

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     • Kara Goldfinch

     @KaraLG84 It’s probably a gradual change, but HTML AAM was first published in 2015, and I think that was the beginning (or maybe just codifying what was already happened at the time in the wake of ARIA). There are probably subroutines/heuristics that might still access raw HTML, but I would think they are super rare.

     https://www.w3.org/standards/history/html-aam-1.0/