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[Clients] Gemini and accessibility regarding preformatted code blocks

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Fri Feb 26 09:44:27 GMT 2021

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It was thus said that the Great Solene Rapenne once stated:

On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 17:25 -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
  I might suggest something like:
        preformat = "```" [ [WSP] tag ] [ [WSP] alt-text] end-of-line
        tag       = '@art' / '@code' / '@data' / '@poem'
Asking people to write English words in their capsule is not
nice. I'm against the use of words like this to define a
content, convention or not.
While this may sound ridiculous to people from the mailing list
because we have to speak English here, that doesn't mean Gemini
writers will understand English. So far, gemtext only requires to
use some symbols. There are enough English everywhere, no need to
add some into gemtext.

Fair point. How about:

@sitelen @ilo @nanpa @lipu

It's from a constructed language so there are (at least for now) no nativespeakers of this language (hint: it's not Esperanto, nor Klingon).

-spc