Post AFxxzPXdB1C4nW7m2S by Xjs@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #AFxxzPXdB1C4nW7m2S by Xjs@chaos.social
       2022-01-30T12:31:43Z
       
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       Couldn’t we teach screen readers to read consecutive emoji in a sensibly compressed way? Something like »Five black squares; three black squares, then a yellow and a green square« or »three hug emoji«?
       
 (DIR) Post #AFxxzPzHWDJOBH3r8a by talon@dragonscave.space
       2022-01-30T12:44:23Z
       
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       @Xjs most screen readers actually do this already. Sadly, it's not enough. I also thought quite a bit about how to concatenate things like this and there's always some issue or another, so it's not an easy problem to solve. And, of course, preference for how it should be done. I'm pretty sure VoiceOver has a setting that let's you choose how many should be read out individually before it says "5 face with tears of joy", but if you add another emoji in the middle it breaks the chain. NVDA starts saying "4 grinning face" after 4 of the same emoji in sequence, and I couldn't get emoji to read on Linux with Orca and ESpeak at all so there's that also.
       
 (DIR) Post #AFxxzRH2jf76AeNYSe by Xjs@chaos.social
       2022-01-30T12:32:30Z
       
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       I mean, software usually isn’t god-given or anything.
       
 (DIR) Post #AFy1AoOFQit6ucrb72 by Xjs@chaos.social
       2022-01-30T13:19:59Z
       
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       @talon Thanks for sharing, that’s interesting! :)