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Re: "How Can We Get More ASCII Art in Geminispace?"
Yeah. Any graphical text should really have alt text attached. The bigger problem is, as you said, screen readers.
It would be ideal if when they hit that kind of preformatted text art they could just read the alt text. But then how you differentiate between that an actual preformatted text (or using ansi art to make fake tables)?
May 31 · 2 weeks ago
I am all for art, but let's keep it a little separate when possible. A gallery is great, but random chunks of odd characters in unexpected places make life difficult for some of us.
“Unofficial” conventions re: alt-text might solve that. Say, “ART” at the beginning makes the screen reader skip? Or at least give some indication that you are going to go in for a whole lot of garbage… So something like ```ART: A gigantic watermelon could make the browser skip the lines when feeding it to the screen reader? Would sg like this be feasible?
How Can We Get More ASCII Art in Geminispace? — Although people tend to like the simplicity of Gopher and Gemini, some people find the experience a bit underwhelming visually. Why don't we see more ASCII decorations in Geminispace? Technically, gemtext plays nice with ASCII and ASCII art, but it's not so simple. As a matter of fact, we rarely see ASCII art or decorations in Geminispace, and there is very little discussion about how to change that. In addition to this, while ANSI is native to...