UI automation is necessary for accessibility
UI automation is necessary for accessibility
Posted Jul 14, 2026 15:48 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: UI automation is necessary for accessibility by taladar
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation
This is not necessary, actually. You can do it statelessly via JWTs. Essentially, you just need to verify the asymmetric signature.
And given that all traffic now is served over encrypted HTTPS, we already need to do that for each request. In theory, this can even be folded into client TLS certificates.
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