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This is also what Facebook does.

Same result: screen readers and assistive software is rendered useless. Basically is a sign of "I hate disabled people, and AI too"

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Fair concern. obscrd actually preserves screen reader access. CSS flexbox order is a visual reordering property, so assistive tech follows the visual order and reads the text correctly. Contact components use sr-only spans with clean text and aria-hidden on the obfuscated layer. We target WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.

Happy to have a11y experts poke at it and point out gaps.

Accessibility APIs have long been the royal road to automation. If scrapers were well-written they'd be using this already, but of course if scrapers were well-written they would scrape your site and you'd never notice.

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