Havoc_Center wrote:I especially need this for non standard fonts such as cursive fonts just as an example because I cannot read anything other than standard QWERTY (Standard BB code text modifications are fine, but like. Yeah)
minecraft wrote:Havoc_Center wrote:I especially need this for non standard fonts such as cursive fonts just as an example because I cannot read anything other than standard QWERTY (Standard BB code text modifications are fine, but like. Yeah)
I would super appreciate that too- but unfortunately, as far as I know such a feature wouldn't be possible
Custom fonts (πππΆππ ππ) as you might already know aren't really fonts like you see on other websites (As CS doesn't allow users to pick fonts while editing posts with BBcode)- and lots of them aren't even actually letters!
These 'letters' are commonly mathematical symbols for super duper complex math; and have their own weird long names instead of simply being called what they look like. Just trying to read them is hard for lots of people (Us included!), but imagine what a headache they cause users who use text to speech or a screen reader >_<
Here's some symbols I've seen around CS and what they're for and named- this is how every single letter is read out, one by one, when a font is used!
ΝΆ - Used as a reverse N - "Greek Capital Letter Pamphylian Digamma"
β³οΈ - Used as a fancy M - "Script Capital M" (Easier, but still an earful per letter!)
β - Used as a fancy P - "Weierstrass Elliptic Function"
And as I've seen some people suggest this before, I should note: there's no chance of a screen reader 'understanding' what the font means and just putting the actual word there, because then the screen reader wouldn't be doing its job.
Thank you for replying!
I 100% agree it would make life so much easier if there was a way to turn these fonts off, so it's a shame it would be such a huge amount of work for the CS team if they wanted to consider such a feat.
Maybe one day someone will develop a web extension to allocate every fancy symbol it's 'normal' counterpart and replace it on page load... :'D
Pyromaniacal wrote:An idea also occurs to me βΒ it may or may not be useful to many people, but perhaps a button that toggles plaintext on a per-post/rules basis? It wouldn't even have to save after you reloaded the page, but it would show you the content without BBCode, or at least without color/size modifiers, without having to turn BBCode off across the entire site just to read one poorly-formatted post.
minecraft wrote:On Flight Rising they offer this feature per forum post, and the icon is a little paint brush! (As they don't have trade rules the same way CS does I believe forums are the only place this option is shown)
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