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Steven Hoefer May 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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Bjørn Bäuchle May 6, 2023

@troublewithwords These programs are meant to be readers, not describers, so saying "Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small T Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small H Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small I Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small S" should be considered a bug. Because you wouldn't read it that way, would you? cc (because via) @foosel

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Ed Davies May 6, 2023

@baeuchle @troublewithwords @foosel But those are the characters which are there. If they were be used in their proper context (e.g., in a mathematical equation) then you very much would want them read out like that to disambiguate them from other uses of similar plain letters.

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Ed Davies

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] At least on Mastodon 4.1.2+glitch you can use HTML or Markdown. Use the content-type drop down in the middle of the row of options below the post entry box. This is HTML using the u, b and i elements.