/text-as-images

Text as Images

This documentation explores the ways the Internet has or can use text as image replacement. Caveat: I'm not an expert in unicode, foreign languages, or screen readers.

Topics Covered

  1. Extra-language symbols
  2. Whitespace
  3. Look-alike replacement symbols (homoglyph) and leetspeak
  4. Emoji (ideograms)
  5. Private and unassigned unicode
  6. Sequences (joining, and modifiers)
  7. Ligatures and "stacks"
  8. Emoticons
  9. Art (ASCII art, emoji compositions, etc.)

Relevant criteria: 1.1.1: Non-text Content (Level A)

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