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petepete 12 hours ago

Probably going to give screen readers a hard time.

Antibabelic 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"How would this impact people who rely on screen readers" was exactly my first thought. Unfortunately, it seems there is no middle-ground. Screen-reader-friendly means computer-friendly.

lxgr 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Worse: Scrapers that care enough will probably just take a screenshot using a headless browser and then OCR that if they care enough.

cracki 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Or they'll just strip those Unicode characters out of the text. Automation is trivial.

JimDabell 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s absolutely terrible for accessibility.

This is a recording of “This is a test” being read aloud:

https://jumpshare.com/s/YG3U4u7RKmNwGkDXNcNS

This is a recording of it after being passed through this tool:

https://jumpshare.com/share/5bEg0DR2MLTb46pBtKAP