Fediverse folks:
Using cutesy extended font tricks like โโแตขโ 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.
@MisterMadge @troublewithwords sorry, y'all kind of made me dig deep on this now.
so, this is covered in unicode normalization forms https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/. it actually looks like this can be done by a browser extension, soo, i'll make one for firefox i guess
@MisterMadge @troublewithwords Here is a quick proof-of-concept. Works for the example in the original toot. I'll package it up nicely later, but would this be useful for instance? Also, no fan of this name, so would love to hear a suggestion for that (if its useful)
@joshbuddy
Dude! This is legendary!
I don't have access to a computer this weekend to try it out. What does "Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small T Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small H Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small S" normalize down to?
@troublewithwords
Steven Hoefer
joshbuddy
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