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Comment by noman-land

5 hours ago

This seems like it would absolutely wreck the experience for people using screen readers.

How? AFAIK screen readers don’t do OCR.

  • The assumption is that if you use this alone to try to convey information to a human, a human with a visual disability can't use it. If you also provide a text channel (e.g. `ALT="…"`) then the LLM can use that and doesn't need to read the confusing image.

It only works as a decoy when you give it to the LLM as an image. As html it appears like normal human friendly text, which is what screen readers use to interpret the text.

  • Which means that this font is entirely useless unless it is implemented in a way that breaks screen readers.