
Accessible Pretext demo
What I did I took the demo for a editorial engine built with pretext by Cheng Lou and I made my own demo fully accessible , with semantic HTML structure, keyboard operability, screen reader support, and prefers-reduced-motion compliance. The result is a high-performance text layout demo that meets WCAG 2.2 success criteria while not compromising aesthetics and performance. The orbs are still draggable with the mouse but I also added the possibility of moving them using the keyboard. In this accessible version, the text is fully selectable and copyable. The visual text lines have pointer-events and user-select enabled, so users can click and drag to select text just like on any normal webpage. Additionally, a hidden element contains the full readable text in the DOM, ensuring that browser find-in-page works, search engine crawlers can index the content, and screen readers have access to a clean, linear reading experience independent of the visual layout. Pretext library usage Pretext po
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