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  How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict

  22 February 2023 by Alice Boxhall

  Shadow DOM allows web developers to create and use components which encapsulate their internals. Like encapsulation in any other programming context, being able to hide the implementation details of an HTML component has many benefits to both developers using the component in their web pages, and the developers who author and maintain the component. However, there is one major way that, to date, Shadow DOM's encapsulation mechanism is in conflict with techniques authors use to provide an accessible user experience.

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