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Slightly OT: how'd you type the strikethrough text? I wasn't aware HN supported that.
by 1f60c 6y ago
Slightly OT: how'd you type the strikethrough text? I wasn't aware HN supported that.
- pjmlp 6y agoIt doesn't, but does support unicode text, so use just another site and then copy-paste the result here. :)
- searchableguy 6y agoPlease don't do that for accessibility reasons.
- pjmlp 6y agoPlease explain.
- gostsamo 6y agoNot all unicodes are equal for a screen reader. The text in case is read for me as every letter is separated from the others by a unpronouncible symbol and the whole line becomes a mess. Something like the chicken language, if you are acquainted with the concept.
- pjmlp 6y agoI see, thanks for explaining. Anyway to do it in a more screen reader friendlier way?
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- gostsamo 6y agoBesides leaving effects to the fond, I'm not quite sure. The screen readers must be told to treat one symbol as another and this is not something easy in plain text format. In HTML that you own, you can try to do it with images and alt text attribute, or some shenanigans with aria-hidden and aria-text. Front end is not my specialty, unfortunately.
- searchableguy 6y agoHey, I am curious which screen reader do you use? I have noticed that many cloud based TTS actually work fine with unicode which was surprising. I know google one does and it sounds way better than whatever comes in as default on Ubuntu (Orca).
- gostsamo 6y agoNVDA on Windows. Orca does not have high-quality voice for my language as far as I know and that renders it unusable for day-to-day usage. Keep in mind that screen reader and voices for it are different components that could be mixed. Both could be instructed to treat unicodes in whatever manner necessary, but it is labor intensive and euristics usually has some dubious results.