I want to make a site that is both difficult to screen-scrap and accessible.
Is that an oxymoron?
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I want to make a site that is both difficult to screen-scrap and accessible.
Is that an oxymoron?
Most likely. Accessibility relies on tools that parse the underlying code. For example the
table“summary” attribute, or more common, the “alt” attribute on theimgtag. In addition, these tools may interpret the code in ways that may not be as straight-forward as this.So, if a site is accessible is somewhat the same as saying that the underlying code is easily parseable. And, consequently, if it’s parseable, it can easily be scraped.
So, yes, you could say it’s an oxymoron.