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Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
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Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#32This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern.
It's also against web compat standards to use these characters without providing alt text (failing case: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F71.html)
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#33𝔹𝕖 𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕖 (𝕠𝕣 𝕟𝕠𝕥) 𝕒𝕤 𝕒 𝕡𝕝𝕦𝕘𝕚𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕤𝕖𝕣
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#34𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖞
𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚢
𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕪
𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎
𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙮
ⓕⓐⓝⓒⓨ
🅵🅰🅽🅲🆈
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#35This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern.
I don't see why screen readers can't just be extended to handle characters that look like F.
Screen readers should faithfully render characters as sound so people with limited/no eyesight can engage with written language, not make a guess that you meant to write cursed/fancy text instead of what those characters are for.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#36This is fantastic. How does this work?
🄸 🄱🄴🄻🄸🄴🅅🄴 🅃🄷🄴🅈'🅁🄴 🅄🄽🄸🄲🄾🄳🄴 🄲🄷🄰🅁🄰🄲🅃🄴🅁🅂
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#37𝙳𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#38This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern.
I wonder actually. Google seems to understand these, you can search with them. I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. They're originally for Mathematics, and I'm sure there's plenty of blind mathematicians.
Some of them are outside the mathematical range, that just happened to be the one I picked.
Google has a lot of resources to do normalization, when IDNA in the URL bar became common they and other browser manufacturers had to put resources behind similar looking glyph attacks to make sure that you were actually on google.com and not on some site that was using a homoglyph attack.
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2017/10/out-of-character-h...
This may explain why Google is able to discern these use cases.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#39I crave 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕓𝕚𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕒
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#40This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern.
I wonder actually. Google seems to understand these, you can search with them. I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. They're originally for Mathematics, and I'm sure there's plenty of blind mathematicians.
blind mathematicians don't write english to communicate in these unicode blocks... These blocks don't exist to be used for writing words in the english language.