hidden links/texts in footers. Google penalty?

There are hidden texts (titles of posts) in the “read more” A href sections of categories. To find it, look for class=”screen-reader-text” in the categories of a wordpress website with Neve theme. / So, in the “read more” part at the end of excerpt in blogs and categories, there is this hidden <span> text inside a A HREF /// These Hidden texts in Links and outside of screen are something that Google penalizes! // for those who want to mitigate this problem, Disable excerpt in category and blog pages.

I disagree with the author. By the way, there are additional screen-reader-text hidden texts in the menu on every page. It seems like the text is off screen with small width/heigth. To mitigate this, create a neve child theme and remove the screen-reader-text from the pages.

I wonder if it is really useful to blind people. To me, it overloads the code and on top of this, I think that Google penalizes text that is very small, off screen.

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