Charles Iliya Krempeaux <cikrempeaux@gmail.com> writes: > I know — but I think there is a tendency for semantic elements to eventually become > (defacto) style elements. > > ⁂ > > The sense I have of this is — > > Regular people don't care whether these were originally for mathematics or not — > they look like bold versions of characters. And a number of people are already using > them as such. (There are even online tools to help people use them.) They are, and that's a significant accessibility issue. As i wrote elsewhere: > The use of various Unicode graphemes in an attempt to create the effect of using a different font (something i frequently encounter online) can be really shit for those who have to use screenreaders. For example, "𝔥𝔦" will probably not be read out to them as "hi", but as "MATHEMATICAL SYMBOL FRAKTUR SMALL H MATHEMATICAL SYMBOL FRAKTUR SMALL I". So, sure, if people care more about style than about making their text accessible to a variety of people, that's their choice. But i'd really prefer that geminispace avoid, for as long as possible, the style-over-substance road that the Web has taken. Alexis.
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