𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔰. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦.
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People don’t realize that using symbols from Unicode’s Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block as if they were letters totally hoses blind people who use screen readers. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/mathematical_alphanumeric_symbols/list.htm … Screen readers read text aloud to blind folks—but those symbols break screen readers.
Unicode has a standard algorithm to strip all this nonsense away and turn it into simple text: it's called normalization. If screen readers aren't doing that then that's a bug in screen readers. I'm all for accessibility, but this is a solved problem.pic.twitter.com/0PfcEjKLmR
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These symbols are for math rather than words. “Unicode expressly recommends that these characters not be used in general text as a substitute for presentational markup; the letters are specifically designed to be semantically different from each other.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols …
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Sure, but Unicode recommendations aren't going to stop people from tweeting in italics. It's up to *developers* to follow Unicode recs first and foremost, and for a screen reader that means implementing normalization. Which is like one line of code since libraries do it for you.
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