𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔰. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦.
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In fairness, the Unicode recommendation is that these symbols are expressly to be used for math. So in the grand scheme of things, I can’t entirely fault screen-reader companies for not having this at the top of their priority list.
Sure, but normalization solves a lot of other Unicode-related problems for screen readers too. It's just a good idea all around for a use case like that.
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I think normalizing is a pretty good idea in general. Though for these characters, I probably wouldn’t want to normalize them since in math an italic “A” can have a different meaning from a roman letter “A”. And if they were normalized, that could make math a lossy prospect.
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Screen readers are pretty much a lossy prospect already; you wouldn't want to normalize gratuitously, of course. Properly implementing math in a screen reader (in a non-lossy way) is a much bigger challenge!
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