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Making the bunny hold sign meme screen reader accessible on Twitter (self.Blind)
submitted by gayvoter97
I've heard from people who use screen readers more actively than I do (I'm dyslexic so I use one for dense text but not browsing the internet) that the sign bunny memes are a problem because they use a lot of punctuation characters.

You can use, @bunnyaccess, to make these tweets more accessible. If you reply to a sign bunny tweet with "@bunnyaccess" it will respond with a screen reader accessible version of the tweet.

I'm posting to let everyone know so that people can make use of the bot. Here's a link: $1
Itsthejoker 3 points 5y ago
Are you the author of the bot? (it seems so but you don't outright state it, so it's worth asking)

The bot has issues with punctuation, to the point where it can lose the entire meaning of the tweet. For example, a minor example is $1 where we lose the numbers _and_ the punctuation, while $1 it misses an apostrophe and a 't', transforming "can't" to "can" and changes the meaning of the tweet.

EDIT: Assuming you're the author, I submitted a PR against the repo for the bot that fixes the above issue. Let me know if have any questions about it.
gayvoter97 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
I am the author. Thank you so much for the PR - I’ll take a look at it later today

Update - merged your PR - thanks for the help!
Itsthejoker 3 points 5y ago
I just tried it in the wild and $1! Thanks!
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