I had a very wise, elderly art history teacher once who told us that in his 40-year-career, the most profoundly unknowable question a student ever asked him about an artwork was: "are they putting the flowers in, or taking them out?"

Hello. I just spat out my coffee. I'm #blind and your #alttext made me do it. Brilliant toot too. May I congratulate you especially on including "bum bouquet". Bowing. Grateful.

Haha I do what I can. Alt text as secret comedy lol

Back when I was more active as an artist, I used to be part of a group that did "braille graffiti". We embossed sticky foil with brailled messages. We did this as a response to "braille appropriation", using braille as a graphic device in a form that braille users can't read. The Dutch parliament building is a jarring example of this. It has Art 1 of our Constitution (non-discrimination principle) on its ground level glass facade, but it's illegible to braille users.

@janeadams Our best sticker was the very official looking "stupid sighted people can't read" that we stuck inside lots of elevators.

@anantagd I love it! As a mischievous artist myself, I learned that you can get away with a lot by wearing a construction vest or carrying a toolbox. Wow, that sounds so frustrating; reminds me of a similar trend where people were using math symbol letters for "fancy" usernames. Do those still break screen readers? Like this: 𝓘𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓵𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮?

Some screen readers have some support for it now (and thanks to your toot I found out it was turned off by default). Hadn't tried it before but it works. For those in my situation: NVDA -> settings -> preferences -> speech -> Unicode normalisation -> enabled.