SPOOFED: Cognitive aspects of navigation in gemini space

James Tomasino tomasino at lavabit.com
Sun May 17 20:55:39 BST 2020


On 5/17/20 7:45 PM, Emma Humphries wrote:
> "This text block has no hints, should I just render it as monospaced text?"

```
with nothing after it, this would be the default. It can apply
monospaced text, but won't stop screen readers from parsing it or search
engines from spidering it.

> "This text block has the hint text 'art' should I render it as ascii art?"

``` some sort of alt text
handles art, weird formatted text that can't parse, figlet, etc. Accessible!

> "If I run across text blocks with alt text like javascript, fortran, ruby, css... should I apply code formatting"

``` !code pascal
Give it some special token to indicate to clients that care that it can
be handled in a special way. Don't know what the token should be. Could
be a hash-bang! :)

Nicole says code highlighting is important. Granted there's a lot of
that type of content coming. I still don't think we need to
overcomplicate this thing.



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