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Laser precise insight. It just so happens that being able to "audibly convey information on the screen as it would be interpreted by a sighted person" is techno
by perching_aix 2y ago
Laser precise insight. It just so happens that being able to "audibly convey information on the screen as it would be interpreted by a sighted person" is technologically nontrivial, even now in the age of advanced multimodal LLMs. All the while screen readers have existed for decades.
So until that happens, another option is for people to just... not engage in Unicode abuse like this. Or at least be mindful of the fact that if they do, screen readers will take a massive shit, so if that's not their goal, they should reconsider. Which is what the post is all about (as well a general plea to folks to at least mull it over twice if it is their goal).
- eviks 2y agoNot sure why you need to jump to LLM hallucinations as some kind of advance when a much simpler method of looking up a sequence of letters in a dictionary would suffice "Existed for decades" sure, but some design bugs persist for centuries, that's not enough to be confident a fix is very hard
- perching_aix 2y agoBecause fixing this specific problem with a heuristic is not the same as "audibly convey information on the screen as it would be interpreted by a sighted person".