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.
@troublewithwords Agreed. That said the true way to solve this would be to pester Gargron for rich-text support so crude unicode hacks become obsolete. (text-to-speech should also be improved but the majority of them are still proprietary)
Unmodified Mastodon is the only Fediverse software which doesn’t even supports displaying rich-text, stripping all the HTML tags except links and span.
Meanwhile the rest of the Fediverse supports both displaying and formatting messages with rich-text.
Steven Hoefer
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