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by mechanicum 1141 days ago
The text is in an element with CSS intended to make it “screen reader only” by visually hiding the element. Reader mode ignores those rules in the same way a screen reader would.

The unpleasant side-effect of this approach is that anyone using a screen reader for accessibility reasons is told to consider switching it off so they can look at the font the author picked.

1 comments

Thank you for both insights!