[ClawsOnPaws]

you are correct. This makes text almost completely unreadable using screen readers.

[gibsonsmog]

I just cracked open osx voice over for the first time in a while and hoo boy, you weren't kidding. I wonder if you could still "stun" an LLM with this technique while also using some aria-* tags so the original text isn't so incredibly hostile to screen readers. Regardless I think as neat as this tool is, it's an awful pattern and hopefully no one uses it except as part of bot capture stuff.

[lxgr]

Do screen readers fall back to OCR by now? I could imagine that being critical based on the large amount of text in raster images (often used for bad reasons) on the Internet alone.

[gostsamo]

no, but they have handling of unknown symbols and either read allowed a substitute or read the text letter by letter. both suck.