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authorNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2018-08-07 20:40:56 -0400
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shr: Allow skipping tags with aria-hidden (Bug#32348)
* lisp/net/shr.el (shr-discard-aria-hidden): New option. (shr-descend): Suppress aria-hidden=true tags if it's set. * doc/misc/eww.texi (Advanced): Document shr-discard-aria-hidden. * etc/NEWS: Announce it.
-rw-r--r--doc/misc/eww.texi10
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS5
-rw-r--r--lisp/net/shr.el11
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/misc/eww.texi b/doc/misc/eww.texi
index 43adc2eda0f..aa17eee9d94 100644
--- a/doc/misc/eww.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/eww.texi
@@ -262,6 +262,16 @@ contrast. If that is still too low for you, you can customize the
variables @code{shr-color-visible-distance-min} and
@code{shr-color-visible-luminance-min} to get a better contrast.
+@vindex shr-discard-aria-hidden
+@cindex @code{aria-hidden}, HTML attribute
+ The HTML attribute @code{aria-hidden} is meant to tell screen
+readers to ignore a tag's contents. You can customize the variable
+@code{shr-discard-aria-hidden} to tell @code{shr} to ignore such tags.
+This can be useful when using a screen reader on the output of
+@code{shr} (e.g., on EWW buffer text). It can be useful even when not
+using a screen reader, since web authors often put this attribute on
+non-essential decorative elements.
+
@cindex Desktop Support
@cindex Saving Sessions
In addition to maintaining the history at run-time, EWW will also
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d757f52466a..4fc02e8f2a4 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -405,6 +405,11 @@ and its value has been changed to Duck Duck Go.
'shr-selected-link' face to give the user feedback that the command
has been executed.
++++
+*** New option 'shr-discard-aria-hidden'.
+If set, shr will not render tags with attribute 'aria-hidden="true"'.
+This attribute is meant to tell screen readers to ignore a tag.
+
** Htmlfontify
*** The functions 'hfy-color', 'hfy-color-vals' and
diff --git a/lisp/net/shr.el b/lisp/net/shr.el
index edea7cb297c..bc86fe5a383 100644
--- a/lisp/net/shr.el
+++ b/lisp/net/shr.el
@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ fit these criteria."
:group 'shr
:type 'boolean)
+(defcustom shr-discard-aria-hidden nil
+ "If non-nil, don't render tags with `aria-hidden=\"true\"'.
+This attribute is meant to tell screen readers to ignore a tag."
+ :version "27.1"
+ :group 'shr
+ :type 'boolean)
+
(defcustom shr-use-colors t
"If non-nil, respect color specifications in the HTML."
:version "26.1"
@@ -509,7 +516,9 @@ size, and full-buffer size."
shr-stylesheet))
(setq style nil)))
;; If we have a display:none, then just ignore this part of the DOM.
- (unless (equal (cdr (assq 'display shr-stylesheet)) "none")
+ (unless (or (equal (cdr (assq 'display shr-stylesheet)) "none")
+ (and shr-discard-aria-hidden
+ (equal (dom-attr dom 'aria-hidden) "true")))
;; We don't use shr-indirect-call here, since shr-descend is
;; the central bit of shr.el, and should be as fast as
;; possible. Having one more level of indirection with its