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"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> aria-hidden as specified in the W3C/WAI ARIA 1.1 specification lets Web
> sites  mark DOM Nodes with aria-hidden=true -- the idea being that nodes
> that contain content relevant to script -- but not for direct user
> consumption can then be omitted by  accessibility tools such as
> screenreaders. Please add support for hiding such nodes -- either by
> default, or via a user customization.

As far as I can tell, hiding by default would not make sense, since such
nodes are intended to be hidden only from screen-readers, but visible
otherwise.  The following patch to add an option seems to work: