Post #921963
2026-04-03 05:00 UTC
Replies (15)
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@menelion@dragonscave.space 2026-04-03 11:59
@fizzyizzy05 "Bolded italicized capital Latin S", yes. thanks for posting!
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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org 2026-04-03 12:44
@fizzyizzy05@tech.lgbt just changed my profile name font based on your post, i never thought of this before
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@jake4480@c.im 2026-04-03 15:44
@fizzyizzy05 nice to look at the comments section and even though there's over 90 boosts, no nasty jerks whining or throwing shade about this or anything. Gotta love it here haha. Because YEAH - this is GREAT info that probably not a lot of people know. I didn't. (Not that I've ever used one of those stupid things personally 😂 )
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@grootinside@troet.cafe 2026-04-03 16:05
@fizzyizzy05 While i 💯 agree. May i suggest a solution for (hopefully) everyone: If those who fancy custom text (sometimes quite interesting looking) could post a picture using the font they want to post and add Alt text to it? I am not even visually impaired but often can't read the post because of the exotic font. But i'd love to, out of curiosity. 🖖
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@m1rk0@social.defcon42.net 2026-04-03 16:44
@fizzyizzy05 Does mine breaking things as well? I will remove the skulls if necessary.
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@Thumper1964@mindly.social 2026-04-03 17:36
@fizzyizzy05 @MikeGorse Recently somebody I follow here changed their name to show those fancy fonts. At least I assume that’s what they did, because now I hear a lot of useless verbiage and it doesn’t even say the name right. They post significant things, otherwise I’d just let them go.
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@Li@tech.lgbt 2026-04-03 19:12
@fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 hm i wonder if you could implement a "simple" version of your name thats not using special characters and then a "fancy" version too, and then just show the simple one to screen readers, you could even have a toggle for it .. maybe hmm :? this way you can still have this way of expressing yourself, and everything else still works .. maybe ..
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange 2026-04-03 19:32
@fizzyizzy05 I'm guessing that a simple out of the box emoji like my little 👾 would just get read as the emoji name "Alien Monster"?
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-04-03 19:33
@fizzyizzy05 is there a good reference on accessibility and screen reader friendly habits that i can point folks to, things like color choices, alt text, fancy fonts, studly caps in hash tags, etc.? i keep bumping into web sites that really need to get things fixed but getting them motivated and complete in fixes would be easier with said docs/references. thanks!
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@irelephant@app.wafrn.net 2026-04-05 12:28
@fizzyizzy05@tech.lgbt Why do the characters exist in the first place?
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@Angelo@ravenation.club 2026-04-05 16:04
@fizzyizzy05 Yeah, as funny as eldritch horror bleeding text fonts are even a perfectly able person like myself sometimes can't make out the text which ruins the entire post anyways
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@fizzyizzy05@tech.lgbt 2026-04-03 13:38
@nimt nice ragebait
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@bigpawedbear@masto.nu 2026-04-04 11:37
@nimt @fizzyizzy05 the people asking you not to use these strange characters cannot read the screen, they are blind or otherwise cannot read print due to other disabilities.
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@kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-05 18:35
@nimt @fizzyizzy05 r u 4 real, Mr. ""
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@esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club 2026-04-03 15:19
@fizzyizzy05 yes, this is very important indeed! I don't often see those, but when I do, I would often go to the next message, because the screenreader would take a long time trying to interpret that, and often I don't get to the message content because of that