Assistive tech can't handle the unusual fonts people use on Twitter to be cute

Mark Frauenfelder 10:19 am Thu Jan 10, 2019

Kent C. Dodds, who works to makes software development more accessible, tweeted: "You ????? it's ???ℯ to ????? your tweets and usernames ???? ???. But have you ???????? to what it ?????? ???? with assistive technologies like ??????????"

Listen to what that sounds like with text-to-speech software:

You ????? it's ???ℯ to ????? your tweets and usernames ???? ???. But have you ???????? to what it ?????? ???? with assistive technologies like ?????????? pic.twitter.com/CywCf1b3Lm

— Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds) January 9, 2019

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