I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article.

[menelion@dragonscave.space]

I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it.
for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article:
"ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj."
I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake.
https://tilschuenemann.de/projects/sacrificing-accessibility-for-not-getting-web-scraped
#Accessibility #Blindness #Empathy #BadPractices #Web #Text

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@menelion He even has the nerve to state that he is consciously breaking accessibility with his caesar cipher approach.

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

@menelion is this supposed to be readable by so-called humans? the text is scrambled for me in firefox. i can't even tell what the intended effect is supposed to be -- are readers supposed to run some kind of script to undo the caesar cipher? is there a key somewhere? i don't get it.

[tedu@honk.tedunangst.com]

@trwnh it's using a custom font to replace the appearance of letters, so that "ffGE ARrj XRejm" looks like LLMs have taken. Like extreme unicrud.

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

@tedu oh. i have Firefox set to disallow pages from setting their own fonts, so that would explain it.