John Mueller shared on Mastodon that he met with somebody who depends on display readers to eat the net. And he defined to him how old-school search engine optimization methods make studying the net utilizing display readers, nicely let’s simply say, not nice.
John wrote “Immediately I had a gathering with somebody who depends on #screenreaders to get round on-line.” John mentioned that a few of the outdated search engine optimization methods like key phrase stuffing and dropping alt textual content in small invisible photographs with key phrases, and that kind of stuff, simply made it exhausting or inconceivable for these utilizing display readers. John mentioned “listening to how the old-school #search engine optimization methods like #keyword-stuffing in #alt-text & for 1px photographs, and variations of hidden textual content (dimension, colour, off-screen) are part of their regular on-line life was fairly unhappy (and sure, I additionally made some pages like that again within the day). Simply think about what you’d consider the search engine optimization world if that is search engine optimization for you…”
John did add that this particular person mentioned issues are getting higher, he wrote “I used to be joyful to listen to that additionally they noticed this type of abuse declining.”
Here’s a screenshot of the publish:
However yea, attempt to obtain a display reader and eat the net as in case you have been visually impaired. See how that goes for you…
Oh yea, I’m fairly energetic on Mastodon, you may observe me at c.im/@rustybrick if you’d like.
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