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by lupire 1481 days ago
A bit silly. Most of the examples are intentionally hiding content with explicit commands no one would ever use, and then saying it is inaccessible.

That said, Lighthouse should do things like "use perceptual parsing trchniques to compare the visible content to the standard screen reader parsed content".
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progval 1481 days ago
> intentionally hiding content with explicit commands no one would ever use

Try browsing the web with JS and/or CSS disabled, you may be surprised to see how common it is to use <body hidden> and equivalents.

Just by disabling JS and occasionally using keyboard navigation, I have personally noticed half of the techniques in the article on major websites.

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Sebb767 1481 days ago
The point is that you can employ some of those techniques and still get a perfect score. You might set outline: none or have an aria-hidden on your main content because you just copied some bad example. You would never notice and still score perfectly.
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