Chris TrottierExciting! Mastodon may soon see support for incoming rich text.
Which means that more formatting options will be seen in Mastodon.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23913
See screenshot for what this might look like.
Nina🐀🌻WTAF America?𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲, 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇ℯ'𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 Y͟a͟y͟T͟e͟x͟t͟
[Edited to add:]
Alas, I found out that this is also true:
“You think it’s cute to write your tweets and usernames this way. But have you listened to what it sounds like with assistive technologies like Voiceover?”
A link demonstrates that screen readers say "mathematical character" before each letter in each "fancy" word. https://business.scope.org.uk/article/
Hopefully new formatting would be screen reader friendly!
funny display name@ratgrrl what a great way to make your posts completely impenetrable to people with screen readers
@proto Ugh. I had no idea. I just assumed it was still a word.
The site linked below that has this text in all kinds of fancy fonts: “You think it’s cute to write your tweets and usernames this way. But have you listened to what it sounds like with assistive technologies like Voiceover?”
The audio link demonstrates that screen readers say "mathematical character" before each letter in each "fancy" word. Ugh. Sorry! https://business.scope.org.uk/article/accessibility-screen-readers-special-characters-and-unicode-symbols
Link to demonstration tweet: https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856?s=20
CarlRJ@proto @ratgrrl yep, this - how to make text into not-really-text. Search mechanisms will have a hard time finding anything in text like that as well, you might as well scrawl something on paper, take a photo, and post that. Unicode characters have their place, but replacing ASCII characters with Unicode to make them “pretty” is, emphatically, not it.