For those of you who don't know, those are not characters that have a special font, those are actual mathematical characters that are being abused to make the text look like it has a special font in an effort to be "cute." The screen reader is doing its job correctly.
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And for those using screen readers who understandably skipped or not understood the original tweet, here's what it says: You this it's cute to write your tweets and usernames this way. But have you listened to what it sounds like with assistive technologies like VoiceOver?
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a11y hell
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Kent! (don't do the clap thing either, it's a huge pain in screen readers) -
This makes me wonder whether it's possible to configure a screen reader to read map those mathematical characters to the letter they're intended to represent in these tweets?
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I'd say globally tweets written this way usually have a content you can safely skip without missing it :')
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well screen readers should fix that
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Ummm... But those are totally valid mathematical characters. It's not the screen reader's problem.
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Interestingly, it got the one "e" "right".
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