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This can be seen quite a bit on Twitter, both in usernames and the tweets themselves. Personally, since I think human behaviour cannot be completely fixed but c
by Ndymium 6y ago
This can be seen quite a bit on Twitter, both in usernames and the tweets themselves. Personally, since I think human behaviour cannot be completely fixed but can be nudged in the correct direction, I'd like to see services implement something like alt text for text, especially usernames. This way people can use different characters to be as creative as they want, but provide an accessible version for screen readers. Something like this example:
<span aria-label="like this example"><span aria-hidden="true">ππππ π₯πππ€ ππ©πππ‘ππ</span></span>
The alternative would be restricting the use of these characters, but this would kill many valid use cases and you can't just forbid non-latin characters on an international service.
I've written a post[1] about this and thought I'd implement it in one of my services as an example. I haven't seen any example of it live yet.
[1] https://blog.nytsoi.net/2019/12/12/alt-text-for-text https://blog.nytsoi.net/2019/12/12/alt-text-for-text
- marksomnian 6y agoI like the idea, but the de-Unicodifier would have to use the current user's locale - de-Unicodifying certain characters (e.g. Cyrillic that look like English) would have unintended consequences if you just assumed they're meant to be English.
- djxfade 6y agoThat wouldn't work either. What if I was born with a foreign name, but was raised in a totally different country?
- Ndymium 6y agoMy idea was that this would be something provided manually by the users, just like you can specify alt text for images on Twitter right now. I know many wouldn't bother. But at least some would, and it would make using an upside down nickname possible for me again. :)
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThe hosting service can solve this million times as effectively as the users can.
- szatkus 6y agoIt should be easy to detect. You usually don't mix different alphabets in a single word.
- chriswarbo 6y agoI imagine most of these "stylised" effects are generated by services like https://yaytext.com https://yaytext.com Getting those services to include such markup in the copy/paste version would probably solve this problem for most occurences. Note that (a) the original text is known to the service and (b) copy/paste content doesn't have to match what is displayed (e.g. "pastejacking")
- Ndymium 6y agoI don't think many services allow pasting HTML to any fields.