Comment on Does the average person know markdown?
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to cross the text. Not much more for a normie, though.
I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold
I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.
Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.
Yeah, I’m a normie, I’m tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I’m here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don’t even know what gui means. Something user interface? I’m not proud to be this dumb, but I’m pretty sure most “regular” people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.
Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.
Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”
Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”
ulterno@programming.dev 10 months ago
You mean ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶? Yeah. It can be done without markdown.
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Yeah, that exactly. Not a native speaker, huh
Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Those are usually broken on screen readers.
ulterno@programming.dev 10 months ago
OIC. I should have thought about that.
And here I was considering making this the default way of doing a strikethrough.
On the other hand, perhaps we should update the screen readers to make that work. Maybe it can be added as a category of stuff that is to be explained separately.
The least I can do is install a screen reader and know what it does with this.