P.S. there are languages (Arabic, Hebrew) where they only spell the consonants, not the vowels, you have to "guess" those - and Chinese with its 4000+ complicated characters does also not seem that "accessible" to me - so, in the grand scheme of things I think we can live with this slight ambiguity between "I" and "l" ...
(although I do agree it's pretty bizarre that uppercase i and lowercase L are indistinguishable in most fonts)
Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
Here's a screenshot of an English article by Arab news site Al Jazeera about their AI. Again, you can't distinguish AI from Al in the san serif Latin font.
Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
Yes, I actually thought of Paul Simon's song You Can Call Me Al when I wrote this. Arabs say their script isn't ambiguous at all - when you know the language! Any ambiguity can be resolved with otherwise optional accent marks that you'd use in school or for prayer just to be sure. So, Arabic does have a hyperlegible version in that sense as well.
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Paul (with an L) Simon !
P.S. there are languages (Arabic, Hebrew) where they only spell the consonants, not the vowels, you have to "guess" those - and Chinese with its 4000+ complicated characters does also not seem that "accessible" to me - so, in the grand scheme of things I think we can live with this slight ambiguity between "I" and "l" ...
(although I do agree it's pretty bizarre that uppercase i and lowercase L are indistinguishable in most fonts)
Here's a screenshot of an English article by Arab news site Al Jazeera about their AI. Again, you can't distinguish AI from Al in the san serif Latin font.
Yes, I actually thought of Paul Simon's song You Can Call Me Al when I wrote this. Arabs say their script isn't ambiguous at all - when you know the language! Any ambiguity can be resolved with otherwise optional accent marks that you'd use in school or for prayer just to be sure. So, Arabic does have a hyperlegible version in that sense as well.