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by bonoboTP 2866 days ago
Well, it kind of is. In my mind, a screen reader should read anything that a healthy human can. Ideally even text in images and any sort of weirdness.
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Then again different healthy humans read texts differently. There's no such thing as a canonical reading and any reading bring in prior semantics.

There was a sign posted in the break room of a lab I used to work at. It read, "<long complex equation> is easy for you to read, but not for everyone. Volunteer to read for the blind." It was a good double whammy.