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Opening of the first modules a new Gemini station

nervuri nervuri at disroot.org

Wed May 19 18:05:08 BST 2021

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On Tue, 2021-05-18, Frank Jüdes wrote:

1. 🖨 Large Characters

Easily create flashy banner-texts in many different fonts with the

this utility: It reads your text and prints it out in all 290

installed character-sets, ready for you to copy and past into your

own page. ➡ gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/cgi-bin/figlet

Nice. Similar to https://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/

But using ASCII-art and stylized Unicode characters has accessibilityimplications that have been discussed at length on this list [1] andelsewhere [2]. The output of your Unicode Text Converter [3] doesn'tplay well with screen readers, so please add a notice pointing this out.Also, it's good practice to label preformatted blocks that contain ASCIIart in the same way you would add an "alt" attribute to an HTML <img>tag. Example:

[1] https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/005631.html[2] gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2021/20210411-upd-re-your-gemlog-may-not-be-accessible.gmi[3] gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/cgi-bin/UnicodeText