Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Things like screen readers can still try the Unicode decomposition techniques to try to make sense of the nonsense. The Fraktur F does decompose to "F", in this particular example. A better example is something like Lowercase Greek Letter Alpha which does not decompose to Latin "a", despite the readable similarity to most Latin character form audiences.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+03B1

Though there too, there are patterns screen readers can attempt to find to figure out when alpha is pretending to be Latin a.

That said, it's still not a great idea to use them for text anywhere. It puts a lot of burden on the reader's pattern matching skills. Not just screen readers, but human readers too; everyone reads them a bit slower, and that's before you consider the usual human skill/ability modifiers such as dyslexia that make these things so much worse, too.





Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: