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↪ Replying to @WolfgangBremer

@WolfgangBremer It's an anagram of "Immortal Lost Empire Sudo". Sudo of course is the Unix command "superuser do" which allows one user to execute code as if they were another user. This alludes to the immortal, but covert, mind control power of words: putting thoughts in the heads of others.

🔗 Originally posted on Twitter

↪ Replying to @GabiGitli

@GabiGitli I’m glad you asked 😊

To understand this one needs to understand two main problems:

1) A person using a screen reader may be exposed to multiple instances of “Read more” without context.

2) A person controlling a browser through voice needs a unique phrase to activate a link.

@GabiGitli The best links are

a) understandable outside their visual context on a page, and

b) unique in the sense that the same phrase is not used to link to different pages.

@GabiGitli A common workaround is to repeat the title of the linked page in the read more link. But as the title of a “teaser” is usually already linked, this often creates duplicate links to the same article.

@GabiGitli The other option is to hide the “read more” link altogether, and only link the title. This is valid but risks leaving the reader hanging, not knowing where to go from there.

@GabiGitli Another option is to include the full title in the read more link and NOT link the title in the teaser. There would be one understandable link providing the right context in the right position.

@GabiGitli But there is still a valid expectation of a linked title, which could be resolved by Javascript, pulling the link from the other link, and not exposing that link to the screen reader.

@GabiGitli One could also link the whole teaser block. When the reader reaches an ellipsis which breaks the content where the read more link would have been placed, they can still click anywhere to. Again this would require Javascript to ensure that the entire text is not exposed as a link.

@GabiGitli There are more options – and a new attribute known as aria-labelled-by which can come in handy. The chosen option will depend on context. And in the end it’s most important to bring in representatives who experience the issues we are trying to resolve, and listen to their input.

@GabiGitli To sum up: even seemingly small decisions will require effort to be inclusive. Many of them involve vulnerable people who are systematically ignored. And this is when change takes more time than at first feels reasonable…

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🔗 Originally posted on Twitter

↪ Replying to @cydharrell

@cydharrell poor rover = vagabond

🔗 Originally posted on Twitter