Mastodawn

@fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 hm i wonder if you could implement a "simple" version of your name thats not using special characters and then a "fancy" version too, and then just show the simple one to screen readers, you could even have a toggle for it .. maybe hmm :?

this way you can still have this way of expressing yourself, and everything else still works .. maybe ..

@Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 Hmm, maybe a browser setting to only "display" ascii characters + overwrite fonts / text styling with a user chosen one if desired. Although that doesn't fix any text that is embedded in an image or something but for text as text that might work.
But then it also makes sense to just make text accessible when possible -TS

Li ~ Crystal System

@SphereSystem2 @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 really you want to something to normalize unicode symbols that look alike so like 🅰️ => A and stuff .. i think iconv can do something like that .. but i mean this breaks if your not from english speaking culture still since ascii is very english centric

@Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 Yes, that's true you need to also allow for other alphabets which ascii doesn't at least well. Hmm, maybe what you need is a sybol set between unicode and ascii, something that includes all the alphabets and nothing else, although that does mean trying to get people to agree to a third character set standard which oof.

@SphereSystem2 @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 the issue is unicode is for script from every language, things like æ and ß etc have actual meanings but also "look like" ae and B .. you need to know purpose of why their used not what is used ..

@Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 Yes, that certainly doesn't help at all. Hmm, guess you would need a language tag included to filter for characters outside that language, but then that needs to easily be changed and runs into issues even then for anyone multilingual potentially, in our experience when people share multiple languages the language can switch mid sentence, let alone between them making any language tagging difficult.

@SphereSystem2 @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 i think doing it automatically just wont work and what you need is something like alt text for text, tbh but anyways

@Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 You are probably correct on that, although given that people don't always use alt text already it is probably still mostly a social issue to be solved socially as much as a tech solution feels easier in some ways, sometimes there isn't one or if there is it's absurdly complex actually.

@SphereSystem2 @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 i think its partly a social issue, partly a technical one, screen readers not handling it properly feels like a technical problem, and things like an "alt text for unicode weirdness" seems like a possible solution to that, but then the social problem is that you'd have to get people to do that, maybe it'd get less pushback than just 'dont do this at all' though .. i suspect it would, as peoples names are like .. well yknow? .. but erh