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Alexis flexibeast at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 10:59:31 GMT 2021
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux <cikrempeaux at gmail.com> writes:
I know — but I think there is a tendency for semantic elements
to eventually become
(defacto) style elements.
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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.