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by benj111 972 days ago
It isn't (just) a problem of the screen reader.

This is hacking unicode to do things that unicode isn't supposed to try to do.

<List> <Item> element ....

Tells me that this is a list of things.

Reusing a unicode thing that just happens to look like a dot doesn't give context to the screen reader. It doesn't see a fancy bullet point it sees U184638 'libyan double sigilled C' or what ever.

You're then relying on the hearer to know that U184638 looks like a fancy bullet point.