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   juliette (juliette@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:43:24 JST juliette

   #accessibility question: when I share a hashtag with multiple words in it, do screen readers know that different words are marked by capitalization? Or is it a jumble of letters?

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     Joachim (joachim@boitam.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:43:23 JST Joachim

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     @juliette from what I heard, #aCapitalizedHashtag is read correctly, but a #completelylowercasehashtag is bad.

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     Jamie Teh (jcsteh@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:53:10 JST Jamie Teh

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     • Joachim

     @joachim @juliette Totally blind screen reader user here. You're correct: mixed case is better to separate words, where all lower case may result in something unintelligible without extra effort for the user. I think the benefits of this extend beyond screen reader users though; i.e. all lower case could be difficult even for some sighted users to interpret, though I can't cite evidence for that.

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     Joachim (joachim@boitam.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:53:10 JST Joachim

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     • Jamie Teh

     @jcsteh @juliette as a sighted user I concur with your last sentence, I’ve seen lowercase hashtags that were quite confusing.

     It makes me remember the domain name ExpertsExchange.com, which can very easily be read ExpertSexChange.com when written in lowercase