Re:Ask HN: Did Facebook just stop fighting adblockers?
by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @02:34PM
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first off I suppose there can be lots of different places where aria-hidden would be used. So it might be really silly for userscript to strip out aria-hidden areas.
So then you use aria-hidden on your area with the obfuscated Sponsored text in it. Userscript still needs to handle it just as much as before, and the screen reader is free from dealing with it.
at any rate there is no real connection between these two technologies and if FB wanted to keep something from screen readers but still force userscripts to have to work to figure out what to do about them there would be thousands of ways to make that the case.
So then you use aria-hidden on your area with the obfuscated Sponsored text in it. Userscript still needs to handle it just as much as before, and the screen reader is free from dealing with it.
at any rate there is no real connection between these two technologies and if FB wanted to keep something from screen readers but still force userscripts to have to work to figure out what to do about them there would be thousands of ways to make that the case.