It isn't (just) a problem of the screen reader. This is hacking unicode to do things that unicode isn't supposed to try to do. <List> <Item> element .... Tel

It isn't (just) a problem of the screen reader. This is hacking unicode to do things that unicode isn't supposed to try to do. <List> <Item> element .... Tells me that this is a list of things. Reusing a unicode thing that just happens to look like a dot doesn't give context to the screen reader. It doesn't see a fancy bullet point it sees U184638 'libyan double sigilled C' or what ever. You're then relying on the hearer to know that U184638 looks like a fancy bullet point.