Notices

1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 13:39:45 CEST switching.social

   Hello #accessibility people!

   Are there any hints you would give users on here to make posts more accessible?

   I've heard these quite often:

   -Use CamelCase on hashtags, i.e. capital letters for each word within the tag. #CamelCase is easier for screenreaders to read correctly than #camelcase

   -Add a text description on your images, it won't affect the character limit on your main post.

   -Don't use rapidly blinking gifs on your profile, they are animated by default on public profiles.

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • lyman (lyman@jonarbuckle.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 14:33:56 CEST lyman

     in reply to

     @switchingsocial I've also heard: keep special characters & emojis out of your screen name because screen readers read out each one every time they come across your name on a page. for example: in the pic of the "get started" column below, each time the screen reader reads out "ruth" it actually reads out "ruth open bracket coffee female-technologist books book writing-hand tea close bracket"

     Aral Balkan repeated this.