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A Gemini-style proposal

Devin Prater r.d.t.prater at gmail.com

Wed Nov 3 13:22:55 GMT 2021

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Thank you so much for this. Yes, people may not care. The writers may notcare. The web browser developers may not care. But the spec creators shoulddo everything in their power to make Gemini as resistant as possible to thedegradation that is improper use of things for styling. Again, as someonenoted and that I'd kinda forgotten, you can serve Markdown or HTML orOrg-mode files, or even PDF's if a browser (read Lagrange) supports it.Devin Praterr.d.t.prater at gmail.com

On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 6:07 AM Alexis <flexibeast at gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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