Does this meet the required standard for accessibility users? Do they have any such obligations?
Lawyers are definitely going after things like companies' job sites. Applying for a job is a protected action and no discrimination is allowed, either intentional or not.
https://www.adatitleiii.com/2019/01/number-of-federal-websit...
I'm pretty sure Facebook considers pissed off regulators a regular cost of doing business.
Screen readers obey CSS, this uses CSS to hide all of the additional elements (display: none). Screen readers are also designed to work when text is broken up by other inline elements e.g.:
He<b>llo</b> world
In this case it reads out both the words Sponsored and Public.
> If searching "Sponsored" in Chrome doesn't match the posts
That also worked perfectly fine in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Did you scroll enough to render any Sponsored posts?
These techniques work because some blockers only support a limited subset of what a full browser can do (namely block resource locations and specific HTML elements).