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		rustc 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blo... This would be terrible for accessibility for users using a screen reader.

mostlysimilar 9 months ago | [–]

So would the site shutting down because AI bots are too much traffic.

MrResearcher 9 months ago | [–]

<a aria-hidden="true"> ... </a> will result in a link ignored by screen readers.

rustc 9 months ago | [–]

Removing elements that match `[hidden], [aria-hidden]` is the most trivial cleanup transform a crawler can do and I'm sure most crawlers already do that.

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