13 May
2021
13 May
'21
12:10 p.m.
On Thu, 13 May 2021 11:49:32 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Over the course of the next several months, we'll be migrating the underlying technical implementation of Docs from the current HTML-based rendering approach to a canvas-based approach to improve performance and improve consistency in how content appears across different platforms.'
I wonder how this will impact screen readers for the sight-impaired? As I understand it, canvas-based rendering will produce nothing but pixels, so there will be no text elements that a reader app can recognize.