Hijacking Screenreaders with CSS

Ben Myers ·

Mislead screenreaders into changing how they announce content or into forgetting the underlying semantics of your page — one CSS rule at a time. Behold, the chaos that can be caused with just a single list-style: none or a text-transform: uppercase! We’ll challenge the separation of presentation and content, go on a tour through browser and operating system internals, and learn how our page is exposed to assistive technology. You won’t want to miss this one.

Ben Myers is a frontend developer with a passion for accessibility. He is a Software Engineer II at USAA’s bank. He blogs about web accessibility at benmyers.dev, and is about to start streaming about accessibility and semantics on Twitch! You can find him on Twitter at @BenDMyers.

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Hijacking Screenreaders with CSS
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