Bookmark: "Joschi Kuphal: #Unicode #LinkedIn #assistive"

Sebastian Greger

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“Formatting” social media posts by using special unicode characters (that, for example, look like bold text but aren’t) is one of the most common ways to create completely inaccessible social media posts. Joschi Kuphal’s screencast demonstrates the problem:

Most definitely the authors never tried using a #screenreader and experiencing at first hand how exclusive their contents really are for people who can’t SEE all that knickknack.

I'm Sebastian, Sociologist and Interaction Designer. This journal is mostly about bringing toge­ther social science and design for inclusive, privacy-focused, and sustainable "human-first" digital strategies. I also tend to a "digital garden" with carefully curated resources.

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