[wscott]

The article is proposing SVG for rendering responsive text for articles. So the screen reader comment is valid.

[tedunangst → wscott]

The text is all there, isn't? The first demo I liked at used svg to rearrange the page, but all the text would render like normal. Probably even works with a text only browser.

[prezjordan → wscott]

It is not, <text> is picked up by screen-readers without any issue.

[dredmorbius → prezjordan]

In what order?

Have you ever looked at a text dump of a PDF?

Assuming it's a text-PDF in the first place, there's no guarantee that it's in any sensible order.

Of course, most Web writing is pastiche anyway.