Re:After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher se...
by iamphilrae on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:54PM
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Likewise I read all Hacker News links and comments over an iPhone HN app. Absolutely don't miss the form at all except in the cases where the source HTML is not semantic and so the reader mucks it up. But that's an issue with structure relying on form.
Re:After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher se...
by tuxracer on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:18PM
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Most screen readers look at the output of the DOM. They aren't trying to parse RAW HTML from the server. Really wish this myth would go away :/
Re:After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher se...
by crispyambulance on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:08PM
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The problem for authors is accommodating all the different modes which readers may consume their media. Well-styled hypertext presented in the way the author intends/imagines is never going away, there will always be a place for that and it is very important.
For other use-cases... that's why we have HTML and stylesheets. The problem has been solved, mostly sort-of.
Your blog post may be beautifully styled, but that makes no difference if I can't even load it, or the fonts are so thin I have to squint to try to read, or the glaring white background makes me see floaters. A blind person doesn't care about the whizz-bang of $framework if your JS-only site breaks their screen reader.