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Any screen reader users able to help idenfity the best pattern for ensuring this proposed fediverse symbol gets read out loud correctly in different software?
https://typo.social/@FediverseSymbol/113012440880547584
@simon Tested in latest NVDA on Windows and this symbol is read as "Asterism," regardless of speech synthesizer. Using latest version of JAWS on Windows, it is not read at all. There is no pause, it's just skipped. Same for Windows Narrator. iOS 18 beta reads it as asterism, likewise for macOS beta. The only way to fix this is to beg and plead with screen reader maintainers to add a default pronunciation for ⁂. Users can add a replacement themselves, but this is a somewhat technical process.
@ppatel @tristan yeah, the “⁂” character (I wrapped it in double quote marks there) is U+2042 - called an “asterism” - Wikipedia page here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography)