Fediverse heads up!
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Fediverse heads up!
Try not to put hashtags in the middle of sentences, maybe one or two hashtags, but not more than that
Reasoning: Screen readers.
For you, that's just a small character and some colored text, for a blind person using a screen reader, that is the word "HASHTAG" being repeated aloud every 5 syllables
I don't know about you, but I think most people would go insane like that, at least, if you were to put all the hashtags at the bottom, the person using the screen reader can just skip the hashtag portion of the post and that would be an averted crisis
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Fediverse heads up!
Try not to put hashtags in the middle of sentences, maybe one or two hashtags, but not more than that
Reasoning: Screen readers.
For you, that's just a small character and some colored text, for a blind person using a screen reader, that is the word "HASHTAG" being repeated aloud every 5 syllables
I don't know about you, but I think most people would go insane like that, at least, if you were to put all the hashtags at the bottom, the person using the screen reader can just skip the hashtag portion of the post and that would be an averted crisis
Thanks for reiterating this.
I would like to add that coming from a different platform, a practice like this might take a little getting used to. However, once you get it under your skin it's really not that disruptive.
In fact, the in-line hashtags could be seen as somewhat disruptive in the first place—this is not how you would normally write—so getting rid of them is largely an advantage to the writer.
