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   Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:38:37 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

   Please 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 eat the shrimp scampi in the fridge. It is tasty 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢.

   (This is an example I am using to make a recording of how it’s announced by some screen readers. I will eventually reply with those videos.)

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:38:35 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     Those two videos account for ~78% of primary screen reader use (https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/#primary) so I’m stopping there for today.

     Anyway, this is not new information: https://adrianroselli.com/2018/01/improving-your-tweet-accessibility.html#Unicode

     And please don’t reflexively blame screen readers:
     https://adrianroselli.com/2021/10/blaming-screen-readers-red-flag.html

     #a11y #accessibility

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:38:36 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     NVDA 2024.4.2 / Firefox 135.

     Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.

     #a11y #accessibility

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:38:36 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     JAWS 2025 / Chrome 133.

     Announces each fake bold and fake italic letter individually, including its case and style.

     #a11y #accessibility

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:38:58 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     Narrator / Windows 11 24H2 / Edge 133.

     Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:38:58 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     I’m using default settings. Some users will have different settings, but understand screen reader users have the same range of skill & experience with their kit as everyone else has with their own kit.

     Try with your built-in screen reader. Resources: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/11/your-accessibility-claims-are-wrong-unless.html#SRs (anchor link)

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:38:59 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     VoiceOver / macOS 15.3.1 / Safari 18.3.

     Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:39:39 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     TalkBack 15.2 / Chrome 133.

     Announces the fake bold and fake italic as if it is regular text. TalkBack started doing this in 2021.

     Adrianna Tan repeated this.
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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:39:39 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     I’ve shared 6 screen reader experiences.

     The takeaway should be DO NOT use sites like YayText•com to make fake bold or italic text (whether on Bluesky, LinkedIn, etc.).

     If you’re a tester, you may see the speech logs show the characters. These are lies: https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html

     Now…

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:39:40 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     VoiceOver / iPadOS 18.3.1 / Safari

     Doesn’t announce the fake bold nor fake italic.

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 21:54:34 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     I made the thread into a post so you can share it with your social media manager or your mom or whatever:

     “Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media”
     https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont-use-fake-bold-or-italic-in-social-media.html

     #a11y #accessibility

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     Adrian Roselli, pH0 (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 21:54:35 JST Adrian Roselli, pH0

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     Imagine your local government sends this:

     𝑇𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔: 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆. Updates to come in the next hour. Stay calm.

     Now imagine the impact on screen reader users.

     End of thread.

     #a11y #accessibility

     BinaryDigit 🎮 and Annika Backstrooms repeated this.