A Gemini-style proposal

[Devin Prater]

Thank you so much for this. Yes, people may not care. The writers may not
care. The web browser developers may not care. But the spec creators should
do everything in their power to make Gemini as resistant as possible to the
degradation that is improper use of things for styling. Again, as someone
noted and that I'd kinda forgotten, you can serve Markdown or HTML or
Org-mode files, or even PDF's if a browser (read Lagrange) supports it.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater@gmail.com




On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 6:07 AM Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Charles Iliya Krempeaux <cikrempeaux@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I know — but I think there is a tendency for semantic elements
> > to eventually become
> > (defacto) style elements.
> >
> > ⁂
> >
> > The sense I have of this is —
> >
> > Regular people don't care whether these were originally for
> > mathematics or not —
> > they look like bold versions of characters. And a number of
> > people are already using
> > them as such. (There are even online tools to help people use
> > them.)
>
> They are, and that's a significant accessibility issue. As i wrote
> elsewhere:
>
> > The use of various Unicode graphemes in an attempt to create the
> > effect of using a different font (something i frequently
> > encounter online) can be really shit for those who have to use
> > screenreaders. For example, "𝔥𝔦" will probably not be read out
> > to them as "hi", but as "MATHEMATICAL SYMBOL FRAKTUR SMALL H
> > MATHEMATICAL SYMBOL FRAKTUR SMALL I".
>
> So, sure, if people care more about style than about making their
> text accessible to a variety of people, that's their choice. But
> i'd really prefer that geminispace avoid, for as long as possible,
> the style-over-substance road that the Web has taken.
>
>
> Alexis.
>