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Hi! I'm working on a columns layout that's using invisible characters for spacing purposes, but I want it to not be super annoying to people using screen readers. I know that different readers may handle punctuation in different ways, but is there something that's generally ignored? Underscores? Quotation marks?

@velvetpaws most characters are read by at least one screen reader (or are skipped but add a long pause), but double space characters are apparently treated like normal spaces for most readers ([url=https://jkorpela.fi/chars/spaces.html]link here[/url])! they turn into question marks in forum posts (maybe to avoid spam??) but are fine in dragon bios (disclaimer, i personally don't use a screen reader, but i tested this on windows 11's default reader and it works fine! most computers/phones have a default reader you can use for testing [emoji=rainbow size=1])

Trying an em-space: Test...  test...  test...

Hey, didn't even need transparency! :D I'll see if I can figure out a screen reader to see how this sounds, but the suggestion was super helpful. Thanks, @stressparticles!

@velvetpaws np!!! [emoji=familiar heart size=1]