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HAL // HALCYON
@halcyxn.com

can screen readers for blind and visually impaired people read these fancy decorative unicode letters nowadays? last time i checked it wasn’t the case…so it was more inclusive to not use them for whole posts

HAL // HALCYON
@halcyxn.com

i had a friend who was affected by this; saying that using fancy fonts can unintentionally exclude people and i’ve been thinking about this again. more info: ultratextgen.com/guide/fancy-... www.elevenways.be/en/articles/... givemefonts.com/blog/accessi...

ultratextgen.comAre Fancy Fonts Bad for Accessibility? An Honest GuideWhat screen readers actually do with styled Unicode text — and a practical harm-reduction framework for using fancy fonts without excluding anyone.

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