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Proposal: Ability to disable all or some site taglines (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Erika3sis@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net

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I do not enjoy seeing ignoramuses' several-paragraph-long rants about "tankies" when checking the front page. Ideally, it would be possible to disable only that type of tagline, while leaving other taglines be.

I don't know if other people have already proposed this — I can't imagine I'm alone in feeling this way, but I also can't easily find anyone else who's made this suggestion.

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For screen readers it is possible to make entire elements automatically hidden/skipped or to label the tagline as a labelled group that is easy to move past (or drill down if you want to read it).

Consistency between exoeriences (screen reader vs not) is very important, so I would suggest doing the latter (skippable but present labelled tagline) or removing it altogether / moving it to a footer.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is ARIA, which allows you to mark stuff, one of which is to skip (if I remember correctly. Tbh, I haven't used aria)

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah aria provides a lot of tools. And role attributes are even better when appropriate.