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  1. Hello fedi,

    I am still interested in trying to make tables in geminispace that are accessible to blind users.

    The trouble is that gemini's native markup format,
    gemtext, does not have tables.

    Gemtext
    does have preformatted text blocks, so I tried making tables by manually lining up text.

    Header    Also a header
    Thing     A thing
    Another   thing
    but I was told that that sort of table is hard for people using screen readers to parse. So now I'm trying something else.

    I made two copies of each table: one is preformatted text that I manually lined up, aimed at sighted-users. The other copy is a csv file. I link to the csv file right under the preformatted text.

    If you have a gemini browser installed, you can see the results right here
    gemini://pandorastale.wiki/Main/Chapters.gmi

    If you don't have a gemini browser installed, you can see it through a regular web browser here:
    https://pandorastale.wiki/Main/Chapters.gmi

    Note that if you click on the csv link from Firefox or Chromium, they try to download the csv file instead of displaying it in browser, while Gnome Web/Epiphany (and so maybe Safari?) will display it in-browser.

    So my question to users of screen readers is, does this work? Can you actually read the table?

    How does it compare with the MediaWiki version of the same information?
    https://pandorastale.miraheze.org/wiki/Chapters

    #Geminispace #Gemtext #Screenreaders #Blind #Accessability #a11y

  2. Where In The World? • Puzzle #1339 • 2026-03-31
    ✅✅✅❌❌↘️
    ✅✅✅✅❌↙️
    ✅✅✅✅❌⬇️
    ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
    gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/game/1339/

    #smolweb #gemini #geminispace #smallweb #smolnet #games #geography #maps

  3. Starting with version 0.12.10, the #Yoda browser includes an updated Code view, presented as a widget with additional features such as copy buttons:
    github.com/YGGverse/Yoda/pull/
    #Rust #GTK #geminispace #browser

  4. Starting with version 0.12.10, the #Yoda browser includes an updated Code view, presented as a widget with additional features such as copy buttons:
    github.com/YGGverse/Yoda/pull/
    #Rust #GTK #geminispace #browser

  5. As of today, all articles in the new Pandora's Tale Wiki have been fully converted to text/gemini.

    There are still a few more formatting changes I want to do before I can declare the new wiki better than the old one.

    Notably, the website for the git repository does not actually render gemtext. Gemtext is very close to plain text, so the articles are still legible, but eventually I want to set things up so that you can actually view the articles rendered in either a web browser or a gemini browser.

    #PandorasTaleWiki #PandorasTale #Wikiverse #Geminispace #Geminiprotocol #Gemtext #Git