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PSA: To everyone who is #NewHere, and those who are not.
When you use hashtags it can help those using a #ScreenReader to use #CamelCase. Screen-readers can then find and pronounce the constituent words, rather than trying to pronounce the whole thing.
It's not essential, but it's one way we can make the Fediverse more welcoming.
@ColinTheMathmo it never occurred to me that CamelCase was useful to screen readers, but it makes so much sense!
@kicou @ColinTheMathmo Someone pointed that out to me a while ago and I have been careful about it ever since.
It helps human readers, too. My commute to work used to take me past a very nice old building that was being renovated as condominiums. It took me almost a week to realize that oneilllbuilding.com meant "O'Neill Building" not "One Ill Building." Camel case would have helped.
@ColinTheMathmo
And it's also just easier to read it normally that way.
@ColinTheMathmo so it needs to be #SusAnalBumParty, right?
But seriously, good point, I had not considered that.
@ColinTheMathmo thank you my friend! will do so in the future
@ColinTheMathmo Thanks for this reminder and the subsequent one about emphasis characters (vs. all caps). When I reactivated here a few days ago, it was in a gaggle of friends whose in-house joking could easily include all caps due to sloppy practice across other media.
@harmonygritz It's easy to have in-jokes and humour among friends that are unintentionally exclusionary. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but at the very least it's worth being aware of it, and small changes can back a big difference to some people.
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
that is pascal not camel.
@ColinTheMathmo I'm not new here and didn't know that. Thanks fire the heads up.
@ColinTheMathmo i learned something today. Thanks.
@ColinTheMathmo Does the camel case need to start with a capital letter?
@lwriemen I expect not, but I have no direct personal experience of using a screen reader so I don't know for sure.
Logic tells me that the thing that matters is finding the separation between words.
@ColinTheMathmo I had never thought about this, good call.
@ColinTheMathmo That's reason enough of course, but it's also just generally more legible