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Re:Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags by mbrock on Saturday September 17, 2016 @02:45PM (#12521792)
Yes, the parent of your comment is a typical misunderstanding of screen readers.
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Re:Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags by busterarm on Saturday September 17, 2016 @07:22PM (#12523055)
Are you sure? Because I do a lot of testing against VoiceOver and it has two modes, a DOM traversal mode and "grouped" mode which parses HTML. The latter will often do really weird things, like look at the ids of your tags.

And this mode on VoiceOver up until 10 years ago was the default.

In the Windows world, yes, you're totally right.

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