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108 points liquid99 | 1 comments | 14 Mar 25 02:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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notpushkin ◴[14 Mar 25 07:19 UTC] No.43360319[source]▶
Like others have already said, it’s an accessibility nightmare. On the other hand, it’s not like this is going away anytime soon – maybe screenreaders could learn to understand and read some such “fonts” (e.g. bold/italic at least)?
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peebeebee ◴[14 Mar 25 08:55 UTC] No.43360722[source]▶
For HTML, you can probably do the following:

  <span aria-label="my text">𖢑ꚲ 𖢧𖤟𖤗𖢧</span>
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notpushkin ◴[14 Mar 25 09:03 UTC] No.43360772[source]▶
If you want to use such an effect on your own website that’s probably the way to go (although I’d probably try to use real text in HTML and replace it with some CSS magic... or just use a web font).
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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[14 Mar 25 09:21 UTC] No.43360879{3}[source]▶
For social media / forum sites etc, they should definitely add this. Make a plain text / accessible (user) name mandatory and a display name optional. And give end users the choice to show canonical name or display name.