#indieweb 2021-09-21

2021-09-21 UTC
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[tantek] https://www.instagram.com/p/CT8JkBIBP_D/
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[tantek] While this is (primarily) a social media problem (posts, profile bios), I feel this is worth capturing somewhere for indieweb too, perhaps as an advantage?
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[tantek] On your personal site, you can use actual fonts with CSS, rather than have to work around silo limitations with a bad for accessibility hack of using Unicode characters for a different “font” look
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[KevinMarks] it's a screen reader problem. All of those characters have a defined fallback letter that screen readers could use instead of reciting the unicode name string
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petermolnar which is why those should overwrite the corresponding unicode characters instead of using the "free for all" area of unicode
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petermolnar I wrote about this a while ago: https://petermolnar.net/article/icon-fonts-fallback-unicode/
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Loqi [Peter Molnar] Icon fonts should have meaningful unicode mappings to provide fallback
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petermolnar but even then it's not always meaningful for screen readers
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capjamesg[d] Great article petermolnar++
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Loqi petermolnar has 6 karma in this channel over the last year (30 in all channels)
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[KevinMarks] these aren't icon fonts though, they're the mathematical etc areas of unicode you know 𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓮𝔴𝔢𝔟
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petermolnar oooh, those.
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petermolnar yeah... those are a problem.
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[KevinMarks] but they do have well defined plaintext fallbacks, it's a choice by screen readers to read them stupidly.
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sknebel the decision when the fallback is appropriate and when using it is destroying context is probably not so easy though. although I guess a bunch of the text use could be caught be heuristics with low error risk
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[KevinMarks] even if it is a mathematical equation, saying MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL E EQUALS SIGN MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL M MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL C SUPERSCRIPT TWO is deeply unhelpful
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[tantek] presumably if that's what screenreaders universally do, it's harmful *today* to use such symbols instead of actual letters
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[KevinMarks] browser manage to unmangle them in urls https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
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[tantek] bitcoin << Criticism: 2021-09-17 The Guardian: [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/17/waste-from-one-bitcoin-transaction-like-binning-two-iphones Waste from one bitcoin transaction ‘like binning two iPhones’] / Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises
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Loqi ok, I added "Criticism: 2021-09-17 The Guardian: [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/17/waste-from-one-bitcoin-transaction-like-binning-two-iphones Waste from one bitcoin transaction ‘like binning two iPhones’] / Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises" to the "See Also" section of /bitcoin https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=77023&oldid=76803
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[tantek] Goodreads << Criticism: https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1425457727032205316 — 2021-08-09 TIME: https://time.com/6078993/goodreads-review-bombing/
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@TIME Today's Daily Spotlight: @MegzyM27 explores how extortion scams and review bombing trolls turned Goodreads into many authors’ worst nightmare https://ti.me/3lUkpYQ (twitter.com/_/status/1425457727032205316)
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Loqi ok, I added "Criticism: https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1425457727032205316 — 2021-08-09 TIME: https://time.com/6078993/goodreads-review-bombing/" to the "See Also" section of /Goodreads https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=77026&oldid=74072
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