"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.

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lxgr 10 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 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or they'll just strip those Unicode characters out of the text. Automation is trivial.