Post #4362356
2026-08-03 14:20 UTC
@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social I spent a couple of years working for a charity that worked with the Deaf and Blind (both uppercase and lowercase) community in the local area.
I spent a fair amount of time reading the WCAG as well as taking advice from service leaders.
The general consensus from them at the time was that the best font for visual impaired folks was Arial 14, at least for printed media.
Is there a generally better font for screen readers?
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@leeloo@c.im 2026-08-03 15:43
@byteback@mastodon.social @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social Screen readers (the text to speech kind) don't care about fonts. They read the raw text. This font tries to stop scrapers by turning the raw text into garbage, then using a font to make it look right. So anything that doesn't care about fonts (screen readers) see the garbage.