183231bcb<p><span>I've a question about accessibility and the Gemini protocol! <br><br><br>For close to a decade I've kept track of some information on my computer using "plain-text tables." Instead of using a program like a spreadsheet to organize information in a table, I'll create a plain text file. I abuse the fact that my text editor has a monospace font to make a table completely out of ASCII characters. Here's an example:<br></span></p><pre><code>Header 1...Header 2....Header 3
Info 1.....Other info..Something else
Info 2.....Stuff.......Something</code></pre><span><br>I recently became aware of the </span><a href="https://geminiprotocol.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gemini Protocol.</a><span> . GemText doesn't have a native "table" tag, but it does have pre-formatted text. I was pretty happy to realize that the easiest way to present information as a table in geminispace is the same way I've been writing and storing tables for years before gemini existed!<br><br>But I want to know whether this is accessible to folks who use screenreaders. <br><br>A document that never leaves my computer and is only ever seen by me doesn't need to be accessible to blind folks, because I'm not blind. But if I'm going to put something on the internet for anyone to read, then it needs to be screen-reader friendly.<br><br>If you have a screenreader, can you understand the example table above? Is there a better way to communicate the information of a table using only plain text?<br><br></span><a href="https://transfem.social/tags/ScreenReader" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScreenReader</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Accessibility" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accessibility</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Gemini" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gemini</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/GeminiProtocol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeminiProtocol</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/GeminiSpace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeminiSpace</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/ProjectGemini" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectGemini</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/GemText" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GemText</a><p></p>