@neoteotihuacan To whatever extent that you may talk to others on the matter in the future, if any, I have just put something up that I think will help to explain things more clearly and accurately. It is a Public Post, so it should be viewable.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-do-codes-117425049?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

@neoteotihuacan Not to assume anything, but if there is engagement and anyone has questions (seeing as I am here and not there), they can email [email protected] or temporarily be a Free Member of the Patreon and asking via that.

If they want to email, they should briefly visit the Patreon first. Without any visits I may not realise to check my email.

Letting you know as you shouldn't feel any sense of obligation to relay any message.

@neoteotihuacan Thanks so much again.

Since we last spoke, the screenreader label function is being implemented in a different, better and simpler way, following constructive criticism.

Transitioning to that will take time, as will building up the extent of what is available in the shortcut codes. Between the glyph coverage and that this is offering a choice of something working where once was none, that is still worth something.

I'm also in the process of simplifying the Patreon tiers.

One final improvement to the screenreader labels function. They will be more simply implemented by a script invoking a codepoint that can be labelled via a speech dictionary.

The same script used for the shortcut system can do these codes.

Hopefully it is helpful enough to worth offering as a choice.

All that remains is to properly introduce the font itself.

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Screenreader labels would only be used to distinguish between cases where the same glyph can mean alternate things.

Labels that only label a glyph as it may or may not be supported by a screenreader will be moved to a speech dictionary.

The initial release of the fonts may not have all of these revisions but this shall improve over time.

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This way, searching and indexing is not impacted with no user action needed.

The label would be applied by an external script.

Step 1: Run script, perhaps automatically
Step 2: Write simple code, which becomes a properly formatted label
Step 3: Supply speech dictionary for screenreader users.

With some more thought I might rethink things to a better approach.

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