Hi everyone,
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@print The people who keep pointing fingers at me for not adding ALT text to all my photos are the same people who never use capitals (camel case) in their hashtags.
️Yeah, I haven't had thise people for a while, they don't seem to have a problem with my posts anymore, because they are blocked.
People are free to use Mastodon etc how they want. People forget, have other stuff going on or trying to do stuff on phone keyboards. And that is ok. Been there myself.
This instance has a large amount of new people, so trying to educate and make it a normal. Which encourages others to use camel case and alt text as the default.
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Hi everyone,
If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.
Not #likethisexample
Why?
A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.
B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.
Thanks you
@print
OP was slightly ambiguous on A).. So do screen readers understand upper camel case and read out the words nicely? If not then are you indirectly saying it changes nothing for them? -
Hi everyone,
If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.
Not #likethisexample
Why?
A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.
B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.
Thanks you
B for me. Camel case pleases my #ConanTheGrammarian instincts as opposed to the #horriblesplurgeoflowercase abominations.
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Hi everyone,
If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.
Not #likethisexample
Why?
A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.
B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.
Thanks you
Agreed
Depending on the instance you're on this likely *Does* require purposeful intent though..
I.E. people are being tricked into "doing the wrong thing" by the auto complete popups (for hashtags) that are supplied from their instance's server(s)
"The system" defaults to showing you "auto complete" hashtags and the auto complete versions are almost always in lower case. So, if someone selects the system supplied suggestion.. they get "the bad result"
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Hi everyone,
If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.
Not #likethisexample
Why?
A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.
B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.
Thanks you
@print but camel case would actually be #likeThisExample
No caps on first letter.
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@print what does it do with snake case #are_these_read_as_separate_words ?
@ChuckMcManis @print
I tried it with iOS built in TTS. It can read it out ok.
Interestingly it can also read out the all lower case hashtag properly. Although with a slight change on stress in "example".
I guess you'd need to see what commonly used screen readers read out. -
@ChuckMcManis @print
I tried it with iOS built in TTS. It can read it out ok.
Interestingly it can also read out the all lower case hashtag properly. Although with a slight change on stress in "example".
I guess you'd need to see what commonly used screen readers read out.@ChuckMcManis @print
Also probably pure chance. It didn't really cope with @alice 's examples. -
Hi everyone,
If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.
Not #likethisexample
Why?
A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.
B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.
Thanks you
@print I think you won't find a single post without camel case hashtags in my profile
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Tusky tries to do the same. Have to force it.
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Hi everyone,
If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.
Not #likethisexample
Why?
A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.
B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.
Thanks you
And if you're wondering "Why not #snake_case_hashtags though? They work just as well."
Yeah, they even work better since you can capitalize letters and single-letter words don't make it weird, but you will never convince the majority to switch, so just give up and join them.
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Hi everyone,
If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.
Not #likethisexample
Why?
A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.
B) For us sighted people, it is also easier to read.
Thanks you
@print ah, sorry, I had been originally misinformed that #'s worked best all in lower case.. I will try rewire my behaviour!
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@print and it avoids issues like #lovescats or #susanalbumparty
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