Post #2138064

Hello fedi, I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users. The trouble is that gemini's native markup format, gemtext, does not have tables. Gemtext does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.Header Also a header Thing A thing Another thingbut I was told that that sort of table is hard for people using screen readers to parse. So now I'm trying something else. I made two copies of each table: one is preformatted text that I manually lined up, aimed at sighted-users. The other copy is a csv file. I link to the csv file right under the preformatted text. If you have a gemini browser installed, you can see the results right here gemini://pandorastale.wiki/Main/Chapters.gmi If you don't have a gemini browser installed, you can see it through a regular web browser here: https://pandorastale.wiki/Main/Chapters.gmi Note that if you click on the csv link from Firefox or Chromium, they try to download the csv file instead of displaying it in browser, while Gnome Web/Epiphany (and so maybe Safari?) will display it in-browser. So my question to users of screen readers is, does this work? Can you actually read the table? How does it compare with the MediaWiki version of the same information? https://pandorastale.miraheze.org/wiki/Chapters #Geminispace #Gemtext #Screenreaders #Blind #Accessability #a11y