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> I find Gemini pretty accessible overall. There are no images, so including alt descriptions isn't even a concern. There's no CSS, so you can't make controls t

> I find Gemini pretty accessible overall. There are no images, so including alt descriptions isn't even a concern. There's no CSS, so you can't make controls that visually look like check boxes, but are much less accessible. In fact, it's way harder to make an inaccessible Gemini site than to make an inaccessible website. The only gripe I have is the possibility to introduce ASCII diagrams, which usually aren't accessible. The provides an alt text tag to preformatted text blocks for this purpose: > Any text following the leading "```" of a preformat toggle line which toggles preformatted mode on MAY be interpreted by the client as "alt text" pertaining to the preformatted text lines which follow the toggle line. Use of alt text is at the client's discretion, and simple clients may ignore it. Alt text is recommended for ASCII art or similar non-textual content which, for example, cannot be meaningfully understood when rendered through a screen reader or usefully indexed by a search engine.

genewitch 6y ago
> The only gripe I have is the possibility to introduce ASCII diagrams, which usually aren't accessible. CAD software exports .stl files which can be processed into instructions for machines. That is, there is already software that can take lines on a screen and convert it to instructions for a machine. There's probably a way to annotate ASCII images of drawings (schematics, architectural) and output text "text* drawing of an object 14 centimeters by 5 centimeters, ..." Stuff like vinyl cutters (and even the proprietary cricut) can take vector graphics and convert them to instructions for a machine. so it, in theory, might be possible to just paste the ascii drawing text into some software: render ascii as .svg/vector, convert to 2d stl ("a layer"), convert stl to descriptive text. Since the software renders, you don't need OCR for the annotations, which are mostly instructions. if there's no annotation, assume the '-', '_', '|', etc are to scale, and just use "units" as the dimensions instead of centimeters or whatever. |----| = 'two verticals separated with a 4 unit line' Am i crazy?

genewitch 6y ago

> The only gripe I have is the possibility to introduce ASCII diagrams, which usually aren't accessible. CAD software exports .stl files which can be processed into instructions for machines. That is, there is already software that can take lines on a screen and convert it to instructions for a machine. There's probably a way to annotate ASCII images of drawings (schematics, architectural) and output text "text* drawing of an object 14 centimeters by 5 centimeters, ..." Stuff like vinyl cutters (and even the proprietary cricut) can take vector graphics and convert them to instructions for a machine. so it, in theory, might be possible to just paste the ascii drawing text into some software: render ascii as .svg/vector, convert to 2d stl ("a layer"), convert stl to descriptive text. Since the software renders, you don't need OCR for the annotations, which are mostly instructions. if there's no annotation, assume the '-', '_', '|', etc are to scale, and just use "units" as the dimensions instead of centimeters or whatever. |----| = 'two verticals separated with a 4 unit line' Am i crazy?