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Re:Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers g... by mystraline on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:29AM (#47350271)
This is also what Facebook does.

Same result: screen readers and assistive software is rendered useless. Basically is a sign of "I hate disabled people, and AI too"

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Re:Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers g... by larsmosr on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:32AM (#47350290)
Fair concern. obscrd actually preserves screen reader access. CSS flexbox order is a visual reordering property, so assistive tech follows the visual order and reads the text correctly. Contact components use sr-only spans with clean text and aria-hidden on the obfuscated layer. We target WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.

Happy to have a11y experts poke at it and point out gaps.

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Re:Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers g... by PaulHoule on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:41AM (#47351250)
Accessibility APIs have long been the royal road to automation. If scrapers were well-written they'd be using this already, but of course if scrapers were well-written they would scrape your site and you'd never notice.
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