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HOW SCREEN READERS READ SPECIAL CHARACTERS: AN UPDATE

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Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Users with visual impairments rely on screen readers to tell them what is on the screen. Generally, this works well for regular text, but other types of content can be harder to predict — until now. This deep dive explains how screen readers output special characters and offers best practices for using them more effectively.