so it turns out the key to getting people to care about alt text is to point out that able-bodied people are missing out on something they want for themselves. and then suddenly they're all over it.
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twitter could have fixed the problem of missing alt text by adding a button that shows it to everyone. instead, we get bitter queers yelling at one another about it for some reason
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twiter could have fixed the problem of math lookalikes screwing screenreaders over by running the right kind of unicode normalization and then adding that as screenreader only text. instead, we get bitter queers yelling at one another about it for some reason
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NFK[CD]ing the text for screen readers may be too lossy if you are actually using twitter to talk about maths though—though admittedly the default screen reader rendition of mathematical alphanumerics specifically seems hardly usable to start with.
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do you know anyone who uses mathematical unicode symbols to talk about math on twitter and isn't already on your irc channel?
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Mathematical alphanumerics, probably not; but subscripts and superscripts, which would be mangled by NFKC into their non-su(b|per)script homologues, yes:
twitter.com/stephentyrone/
twitter.com/stephentyrone/
(admittedly Atlas and his human should definitely join the channel :-p).
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Remind me to write notes about √(x² - y²) tomorrow. More interesting, but I need to sleep now.
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hm, right, so you'd probably need an ad-hoc transformation. this is the kind of thing that, were it for anything else, silicon valley company's engineers would proudly open source and support
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instead we get libraries that infer gender from names, badly. ah well
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I. Can't. Even.
This takes the cake when it comes to "what's the least reasonable functionality to have in a standard library" in PHP land.
And, I mean, that competes with their default comparison operators, so that's a hard title to win.
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It's an external library they chose to highlight alongside the standard libraries in their official documentation for Human Language and Character Encoding Support:
php.net/manual/en/refs
I can't really understand why they decided it should be included there, but they did.
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