Category:Text Art

Category for tools that create images with text. ASCII art, ANSI art, etc. Often it's called by one of those more specific terms, especially 'ASCII Art', sometimes text art or textmode art.

Accessibility

Text art can obviously be a mess for screenreaders to interpret. Here're some tips to make it more accessible:

• If it's just decorative, you can add aria-hidden="true" to the <pre> element, which will hide it.
• If you're using text art to represent text you can add aria-label="[text]" to tell the screenreader what the text says.
• If it's an image you can use role="img" to tell the screenreader.
• If your drawing's inside a <figure> you can use the aria-labelledby="[id]" or aria-describedby="[id]" attributes to point to the id on an element that has a description, for example a <figcaption>

Links

• wikipedia:ASCII art
• wikipedia:ANSI art
• wikipedia:Shift_JIS art
• PabloDraw - ASCII and ANSI art viewer.
• What is textmode? - Page with good general info on text art and some links.

Fonts

Fonts specifically made to make text art look good (square fonts, for example), and/or to reproduce those from particular computers.

• https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/ksquare/
• https://adelfaure.net/tools/jgs/