OK, #ProTip time
you might have noticed that some of my toots have multiple blank lines so that I can create some space between the main body and (e.g.) a footnote…
“but itgrrl” you might ask yourself “how is such witchcraft possible, since most platforms render #UserGeneratedContent as sanitised #HTML & rarely convert multiple newlines into multiple line break or paragraph #HTML tags? 😲”
welp, I have a replacement text trigger for that too 😜 💁♀️
trigger: //nb
expands to: (non-breaking space #unicode character)
for this one, I may need to apologise to to #blind & otherwise #VisuallyImpaired folks, as it would be annoying & / or confusing to have “non-breaking space” read out by your #ScreenReader software (I haven’t checked this across a bunch™ of screen readers)
from what I’ve read, most screen readers won’t / shouldn’t read out non-printable characters (either HTML or unicode) but some may – I’d love to get some real-world feedback on the range of different screen reader behaviours for this case
#accessibility
#GIFs
#memes
#ALText