Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-overflow] Line-clamp and screen readers (#12859)

thanks @cookiecrook , that did help…

However, I am now differently confused: When people resize the font size or do that kind of change, various css features, notably mediaqueries, might completely change the layout of the page. I thought a general principle of screen readers and other accessibility was to take into account the actual layout to present information that corresponds to what is being seen. If we go after information that corresponds to what might be seen if zoom levels / font sizes were different, that's a different target altogether, and one which can vary so arbitrarily that it makes me wonder if layout should be taken into account at all, instead simply working from the DOM and nothing else. But that's clearly not what we're doing in general…

Another concern I have here is that while reading the whole text if we're showing 3 lines out of 4 or 5 seems ok, it might also be 3 lines out of 500. For example on a page where a bunch of short experts of long articles are show, and you can click to expand which one you want to read. If we render the whole articles instead of the short experts to the accessibility tree, we've changed an overview and navigation page to a long-form multi-chapter document.

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