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As a blind person, I dearly miss the textual Internet as it was. The original Internet -- the textual one -- was perfectly accessible. The extra markup added t
by blindgeek 6y ago
As a blind person, I dearly miss the textual Internet as it was.
The original Internet -- the textual one -- was perfectly accessible.
The extra markup added to HTML to help screen readers was added because
the web stack had gotten too complex, not because it was too simple.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoThe lang attribute added to the span tag in HTML really helps with ensuring that a screenreader outputs quoted foreign-language text in that language, instead of just pronouncing gibberish. And this tag and attribute go pretty far back into the 1990s, it is not part of the modern-web-gone-mad. So, similar markup is one of those little things that Gemini should have thought about from the very beginning, and it would not have made their stack appreciably more complex.
- selfhoster11 6y agoForeign language text could potentially be auto-detected. You could either use some sort of an NN based approach, or use an algorithm like the one that browsers use for detecting the text encoding of a page where that's not given.