Super Cool 😎 Tool to Style Your 💙 Tweets

Hey, I recently found a cool website tweetfancy.io. It lets you add styles to your tweets, and it's pretty straightforward as it uses simple Markdown. If you wanna make your tweets stand out, it's worth checking out!

flexdinesh / tweet-fancy

🚀 Tweet with bold, italics and strikethough text

tweetfancy.io

Ever fancied tweeting with bold, italics or strikethrough text?

Twitter may not support it but you can.

Write in markdown and grab your fancy text.

🚀 https://tweetfancy.io

Note: The generated bold, italics and strikethrough texts are UTF Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. So if you run them by a screen reader, you'll find that the reader reads them out by their symbol name. But then, all screen readers struggle reading smileys too (🎉🔥🚀🦄😎) and that doesn't stop us from using smileys.

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Dineshkumar Pandiyan

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Comments

[rhymes]

Only a small note: it's a disaster for Twitter's accessibility and screen readers :-(

Take the text here:

It's super easy to tweet in 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 or 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴. You can even write with s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶.

put it in TextEdit in MacOS, right click, choose Speech -> Start speaking and cringe :D

[Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦]

This might look cool on screen but it's a nightmare for screenreader users. I recommend avoiding it. In fact, I don't think it's overreacting to say that you should never ever do this.

This is what your tweet will sound like to a screenreader user:

@rhymes commented above that this is a small note. I respectfully disagree. Doing this is a huge compromise in common decency.

[rhymes]

I agree with you disagreeing with me ☀️

[Sundeep]

I have an alias for bold text

$ alias ascii2bold="perl -Mopen=locale -Mutf8 -pe 'tr/a-zA-Z0-9/𝗮-𝘇𝗔-𝗭𝟬-𝟵/'"
$ echo 'Hi there 3.14 and 42' | ascii2bold 
𝗛𝗶 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝟯.𝟭𝟰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟰𝟮

[JavaScript Joel]

Nobody even reads my tweets, but for some reason, I worry about a screen reader? lol