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Re: "How Can We Get More ASCII Art in Geminispace?"
“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?
Jun 01 · 3 weeks ago
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...