Hector Martin

𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔰. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦.

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.

You're totally right. I won't keep doing it!

Hey, thanks, Ben! If you’d be up for it, you might be able to help undo the damage by tweeting as much or by potentially nixing your earlier tweet. (I’m a big fan of the work that MoveOn does, and I’m not trying to dunk on you personally. I’m just trying to help blind people.)