#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores?
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#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf
I've been on here since Nov 2022 and I believe the solution most of us use is to make it a camel back hashtag. Meaning, we capitalize the first letter of each word within the hashtag.
Example: #SheTellsDadJokes -
@disorderlyf if you can't vote in the poll above, would you like to be reminded that the poll ended?
@webhat fwiw, it looks like I can edit it to push the expiry date to seven days instead of three. Usually, polls I post don't perform well past the first 24 hours, so I decided on three days initially. If it's still getting regular votes in 48 hours, I'll increase it.
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@webhat fwiw, it looks like I can edit it to push the expiry date to seven days instead of three. Usually, polls I post don't perform well past the first 24 hours, so I decided on three days initially. If it's still getting regular votes in 48 hours, I'll increase it.
@disorderlyf cool, won't you loose the existing votes?
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@disorderlyf cool, won't you loose the existing votes?
@webhat I didn't think so, because it'd be an edit to an existing poll, I'll confirm before I do that.
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@webhat I didn't think so, because it'd be an edit to an existing poll, I'll confirm before I do that.
@disorderlyf in my experience, if I edit running polls they are reset, I don't know about time limits tho
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#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf @threeforks #CamelCase is best.
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#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf Both work; capitalization preferred.
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@disorderlyf in my experience, if I edit running polls they are reset, I don't know about time limits tho
@webhat I just did another poll, voted with my backup account, and edited the expiration and it kept the results.
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@webhat I just did another poll, voted with my backup account, and edited the expiration and it kept the results.
@disorderlyf nice
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#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf
I (a sighted person) voted "4th thing" so I'd get notified of the result. -
#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf
Screen readers are able to read #CamelCase hashtags correctly. -
#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf As a sighted person I usually read that capitalizing each word in the tag is preferred, and I prefer reading such.
The screen reader Orca seems to pronounce the underscores (as "line"), but otherwise the words are also separated.
The app suggesting lowercase tags is a known issue, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20267, it most likely suggests the first casing it has recorded unless it was later edited by the instance admins.
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@disorderlyf
I (a sighted person) voted "4th thing" so I'd get notified of the result.@disorderlyf @alyn exactly why I added my poll in a reply
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#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf Capitalizing each word makes them more readable even for sighted people, FWIW.
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#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf I don't use screen readers, but people who do have told me that CamelCase (capitalising each word) is best.
It may vary depending on the user or the screen reader software, so YMMV. -
#AskFedi for those of you who are #blind or #VisuallyImpaired , or regularly use #ScreenReaders but aren't either, is it better for readability if I capitalise words in #hashtags or use underscores? My Mastodon app keeps suggesting no spacing or capitalisation, which I've been told is awful for readability, but it will sometimes suggest words separated by underscores instead.
Boosts appreciated so I have a more accurate idea of what is more accomodating.
@disorderlyf I think the suggestions are simply what it's seen, so the lack of capitals means few people are aware and putting in the (very minor) effort. I don't use a screen reader, but I've been told by people who do that word initial capitals cause separation of words; all caps causes spelling. So #LOL and #Ice work to have them sound the way I read them.
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