@metin visible they are, but what about screen readers for blind people? Will they recognize words with these unicode chars, or just recite the unicode descriptions of individual letters one by one?
On the other hand, these readers handle normal alt text of a pic very well.
@mbt3d@metin oh this is great, a large thank you for actually checking that!
Edit: hmm are we sure? The debug view shows the unicode string is readable. That does not mean a screen reader will interpret it as an ASCII string. These accessibility tools are usually not very smart. But I cant find a simple to use screen reader after a 30sec google search.
@f4grx@metin To be sure you would need to check with someone with a reader, but the text is showing in source as ASCII and so I would hope the readers could find it. I don't know though as I haven't access to one.
@f4grx@metin Selecting and using Apple text to speech fails though.
But selection search works, so as I say I am not sure, and would err on the side of caution and not use it
@mbt3d@f4grx Thanks for the research. I like the unicode text option though, and I guess about 99.9 % of Mastodon users will be able to read it, and the remaining 0.1 % might miss some of my irrelevant posts. Not something to be concerned about. 🙂
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