https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49015

--- Comment #16 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> Given how popular this hack is, perhaps we should introduce a __NOTITLE__
> magic
> word.
> 
> To be honest, maybe we should just revert stopping display:none. There are
> still many ways around it (postition:absolute;top:-500 or
> display:block;width:0;height:0 or even just color: white. Someone inventive
> could probably come up with more). However, these alternative approaches
> become
> more and more evil, which I don't think we should force people to use. The
> main
> point is to avoid tricking people. Since people can only remove letters, the
> old restrictions more or less accomplishes that.

Actually there's a big difference between display: none; and those other ways
of hiding characters.

display: none; practically erases it to the point that it doesn't exist nowhere
(well except text browsers that no-one notable uses). You can't select it, if
you C&P it won't be copied, and screen readers whom won't render the styles you
replace the text with won't see the text and will misread the title.

Those other methods don't. They only visually hide it for people only looking
at the formatted text. You can select it, if you copy the plaintext the full
title text is present, and they will leave screen readers alone (though one
specific mac one won't like overflow+height:0; position+clip:rect is the best
way to do it) so blind and deaf readers will still hear the correct titles
instead of it being mangled.

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