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    1. CEO who posted about wearing 'Lake America' sweatshirts to Halifax is no longer CEO

      The page hides extra headings that label each section for screen-reader users, which is a nice touch. The catch is that seven sections get called "More Top Stories," so someone browsing the headings list hears the same thing seven times with no way to tell them apart. Putting the section topic in each heading would help.

    2. What's behind the review bombing of Best of the Best?

      Improvement: the photos on these story cards include alt text, but the tag reads "Card Image" on each one. A screen reader says that same label for every story and nothing about what the photo shows. The module's standard is an alt tag that describes the image in 125 characters or less, and a generic placeholder falls short of that.

    3. Quick Links

      One thing that could be better: if a screen-reader user opens the list of headings on this page, the first one is a small menu heading called "Quick Links" that comes before the main page heading. Headings are supposed to run in order so people can map out the page, so this one is out of place. Moving it lower down, or leaving it as regular text, would fix that.

    4. The moment I became a walrus mom

      Videos in the Must Watch section have a closed-caption icon right on the thumbnail, so viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing know captions are there before they click play. The module tells us to caption video content, and labelling it up front like this makes it easy to find.

    5. Menu

      Press Tab on this page and the first thing that appears is a "Skip to Main Content" link, with a "Skip Shorts" link further down. A keyboard or screen reader user can jump past the big navigation menu in one move instead of tabbing through dozens of links. Good example of the Operable principle from this module.

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