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Against Faux Sperrsatz Emphasis

There’s a recent proposal of jamming a special unicode character, narrow no-break space, between every character in specific words as a way to make them stand out to sighted users without breaking screenreaders.

This sentence contains an e x a m p l e. It reads as the word “example” on Siri, but there are plenty of other screenreaders and environments in use where it reads as separate letters.

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It sucks on screenreaders.

It also messes with a lot of other text processing, such as text search and word selection.