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Vasco Costa vasco.costa at gmx.com
Thu Feb 25 22:41:03 GMT 2021
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Hello Davin, welcome to Gemini and to this mailing list!
Thank you for your insight from the perspective of a screen reader user.As a future developer of a Gemini client I'll take your word intoaccount when dealing with preformatted blocks of text and as a contentcreator I'll now consider whether to use alt text at the beginning ofpreformatted banners or to stop using them altogether.
I only use one at the top of my Gemini capsule and gopher hole, with alarge version of the title of my sites. At least on Gemini maybe itmakes more sense to use simply a first level header, which is alreadyrendered as bigger text on graphical browsers anyway.
I have a question for you. I don't use ASCII art on my banner, instead Iuse ANSI art. Basically I draw the title of my capsule with ANSI blockcharacters, instead of alphanumeric characters. How do screen readerstypically handle this? Is it less or more problematic than ASCII? Iwonder if screen readers skip it or repeat something like "block" forevery character, which would obviously be extremely annoying. In caseyou need a capsule to test this, my Gemini capsule starts with an ANSIbanner:
gemini://gluonspace.com/
I believe that most of us enjoy Gemini for a common reason, which is thefact that it serves content instead of format. At the end of the day,that's what really matters, no matter whether we use screen readers ornot.
--Vasco Costa
AKA gluon. Enthusiastic about computers, motorsports, science,technology, travelling and TV series. Yes I'm a bit of a geek.
Gemini: gemini://gluonspace.com/Gopher: gopher://gopher.geeksphere.tk/