Post #2216445
2026-04-06 17:23 UTC
@j9t@mas.to I believe CSS can be misused. Features that exist so that some things are possible in the appropriate context are used inappropriately, either intently or through ignorance: truncation (text-overflow), disabling user interactions (user-select, pointer-events), and other user-hostile touches. It’s interesting to think about how mitigation at the browser level could look like.
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@j9t@mas.to 2026-04-06 18:06
@db@typo.social, I understand the spirit and wonder what issues additional examples would surface! Truncation, for example, is something that should never lead to accessibility issues in the first place (my take), so this could be something to pass on to user agents. Yet this isn’t to dismiss that some solutions are preferable to others, let alone to disrespect the craft—if anything I feel being lighter about what is strictly “wrong” would help our craft.