❌️ Adding accessibility features to make the internet usable by anyone
✅️ anyone other computers
Comment on Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
The autistic community has been dying for this kind of accessibility accommodation for years.
I cannot express how deeply this angers me.
“Markdown offers a cleaner, more semantically clear representation of the content. This means less noise for ~~language models and other text-analysis systems ~~ people that process information neurodivergently, resulting in more efficient processing and potentially lower compute costs real life physical exhaustion.“
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I have ASD; I made several tools that explicitly convert web sources to .md and JSON.
The shitty thing is, a lot of sites - even if they have stuff available in simple, beautiful JSON format, refuse to give public access to it. Notoriously, movie session times for local cinemas. That should be a simple look up…but no.
Oh well, at least cool shit like this still exists
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Woohoo, the interests of capital have coincidentally aligned with ours in this one brief moment!
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The next step is for Cloudflare to introduce a proprietary markdown tags, then release a library to parse their new crap, then update their systems so it serves degraded ‘legacy’ markdown but include a paid API to get access to the ‘old’ markdown, then add features to the library that can only be accessed by API customers, etcetc
I see a commercial entity embrace something and start looking for the extend and extinguish part.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
don’t “reader” views in web browsers essentially accomplish the same thing?
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Yes, and the way this reader functionality works is using structured tags in the HTML code. A very small effort that leads to a magnitude in accessibility that some just do not give an F about.
The kicker here is that these tags also impact SEO heavily, so not having them not only makes it harder for many people to use or read some sites, but it also makes them score lower on search engines.
artyom@piefed.social 11 hours ago
My brother, this is not just autistic people. Everyone wants this. Except the people who make the sites, because all that noise is how they make money.
If you look at a private blog, they’re usually devoid of much noise.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
MD is a nearly ideal format. I keep my personal notes and time management stuff in Obsidian using markdown. Write my blog in Markdown. AsciiDoc is nice, too, for certain use cases.