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.

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@troublewithwords i'm floored by the number of people who think screenreaders need to be able to cope with people purposefully misusing special characters to be cute, as if that's even truly possible considering how desperate people seem to be to add quirkiness to their visual output, so it's always changing, always new special characters being abused
May 6, 2023 at 3:07pmWeb