[Clients] Gemini and accessibility regarding preformatted code blocks

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 6:24 PM Solene Rapenne <solene at perso.pw> wrote:


> I don't have a strong opinion about adding something like this,
> but if it has to be done, please use another character than `
>
> It's hard to differenciate between ``` to ```` and this may confuse
> people, and people writing content may misuse them.
>

Agreed.  But if we make it ```x, where x is some character, then we don't
have to introduce a new line type: it's just a convention about alt-text.

I did a little Google search for ["alt-text" -image -images] and there is
nothing except other senses of "alt text".  I also note that
in HTML5, the "alt" attribute is for the img, area, and input (graphical
button) elements only.  There is no notion of text with alt text.




John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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between plans and performance.        --Emperor Hirohito, August 1945
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