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Proposal: Ability to disable all or some site taglines
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025
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Would love to disable taglines. It messes a lot with accessibility
Hugely important for site accessibility.
I mean, personally I love it when I pull up a website on my phone and have to scroll through two full screen lengths of irrelevant rambling before getting to the thing I want.
I'm sure screen reader users love it too! That's why Timecube was a beloved example of a highly accessible website, broadly cited by web designers as how to make your content usable and accessible, right?
For screen readers it is possible to make entire elements automatically hidden/skipped or to label the tagline as a labelled group that is easy to move past (or drill down if you want to read it).
Consistency between exoeriences (screen reader vs not) is very important, so I would suggest doing the latter (skippable but present labelled tagline) or removing it altogether / moving it to a footer.
There is ARIA, which allows you to mark stuff, one of which is to skip (if I remember correctly. Tbh, I haven't used aria)
Yeah aria provides a lot of tools. And role attributes are even better when appropriate.
Hexbears once again attacking the wrong thing (taglines) instead of the real space real-estate eater (pinned posts)
I just collapse the pinned megas when I don't want to see them, and honestly if that was possible with a long tagline as well I'd be super happy to do so. Idk if that's possible, but I think I just stumbled into a very centrist solution