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Creating an Accessible Code Diff: Single Reading Order and Navigable Hunks

Explore ways to create accessible code diffs. Enhance user experience with a single reading order and navigable hunks.

While a side-by-side code diff is visually effective, it can become confusing when assistive technologies read the entire old and new files. Start with a single semantic sequence of changes, treating the split view as a presentation of that sequence rather than the document structure.

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