Does anyone know how well screenreaders handle unicode here? For a while I was using unicode on the other site to bold and italicize stuff, but someone pointed out that screenreaders trip over them there so I stopped.
So, for example if I do: "𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱" does that work?
@mmasnick Yes, although I imagine screenreaders will have exactly the same amount of trouble. But if your instance supports it (am using Mastodon v3.2.1) you can also format in Markdown: *italics*, **bold**, _**bold italics**_, `typewriter`, [links](https://www.techdirt.com/), _**[`bold italic typewriter links`](https://www.techdirt.com/)**_. Pleroma has a similar feature. For Fraktur, blackboard bold, and script you still need to resort to Unicode.
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Actually am not sure how much of that is going to work because the "Markdown" implementation in Mastodon is super janky and has a lot of problems. Let's see!
@mmasnick Actually on Qoto (my instance) and on Mathstodon we can use LaTeX with Mathjax: \[\mathbb R, \mathcal R\], and maybe even \[\mathscr R, \mathrsfs R\]. But on #Qoto Mathjax is kind of broken, and when the post gets syndicated to other instances it just shows up as raw LaTeX code unless they install Mathjax too.
Everyone ought to, because if people are discussing things without being able to use equations, there's really no hope of coming to agreement on basic facts, and Mathjax makes it enormously easier to use equations.
(Edited: I screwed up the Mathjax delimiters! Possibly because of Markdown actually.)