Steven HoeferMay 5, 2023

Fediverse folks:

Using cutesy extended font tricks like ₜₕᵢₛ basically triggers a denial of service attack on folks who use screen readers.

Instead of saying "this" it says "Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small T Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small H Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small I Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small S"

Let's be cool the folks who have to use screen readers to participate in our community and don't do that.

Show threadSpace HoboMay 5, 2023

@troublewithwords
@ThermiteBeGiants

Honest question: how can we help screen readers handle this situation better? Who makes them, and where do we file bugs?

Show threadÖlbaum
@troublewithwords @ThermiteBeGiants @spacehobo From what I’ve heard, they don’t give a shit. They sell their crappy products for thousands of dollars a piece and they can get away with doing the bare minimum.
May 6, 2023 at 11:28amWeb
Show threadÖlbaumMay 6, 2023
@ThermiteBeGiants @troublewithwords @spacehobo Also I just read something about doing prompt injection fir Bing Chat using a web page written using that kind of characters, so it suggests LLMs are able to read text written like this. I have yet to try.