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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 16:33:57 As a sighted person, a 23-character long all-lowercase hashtag made from several words is hard enough to parse. For a visually impaired person or a screen-reader, it's friggin impossible. Use CamelCaseInYourHashtags! for the cost of a few shift keys, you'll make it SO much easier for everyone. |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 16:54:31 @alan good tip, will implement |
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Föderation · Fr 17.01.2025 17:25:54 @alan@mindly.social not to be a pedant, but if the first letter is capitalized it's PascalCase, not camelCase ;) |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 17:58:58 @alan Already doing this, but thanks for the reminder! 👍 |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 18:04:30 @alan CamelCase is still unreadable. We need dashes and underscores in hash tags. |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 18:33:14 @janneke Given that hashtag parsers can't handle that, I'm trying for the best available solution. |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 18:12:01 @alan You mean that website expertsexchange might not have been what I thought it was about? Next you'll be telling me powergenitalia means something else too! |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 18:33:58 @ryanoneill1970 Filed under things better not searched for. ;) |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 19:21:43 @alan Reminds me of the whole #NowThatchersDead / #NowThatChersDead debacle. |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 19:34:37 @alan Hi Alan, I hope you won’t mind me asking you directly, but our server’s hashtag is “PDXSocial”, and now I’m worried that it’s being parsed as “PDXS + ocial” instead of “PDX + social”. Should we change the capitalization? |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 19:59:50 @agnes Best to ask someone with a screenreader. Acronyms and single-letter words are more difficult! |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 20:10:45 @alan Ah OK I’ll browse through the hashtag some more, thank you! 🙂 |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 23:14:00 |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 23:27:31 @agnes @alan I did a quick test with VoiceOver on iOS and #PDXSocial announced as “PDX Social” as expected. Worth checking some other screen readers since they all have their own heuristics but but broadly speaking I would expect it to do OK. (#PDXsocial actually announced for me with VO as just “PD social,” for whatever reason. 🤷) “PDX” doesn’t have vowels and isn’t really pronounceable the way that some other acronyms might be (NASA, etc) so it usually does OK. |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 19:37:26 @alan on the upside, sounds like some Facebook users have made the jump! |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 20:19:28 Wait, did you just insult the entire German-speaking world?! |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 20:28:49 @jrredho Howgemansconcatenateexistingwordstomakenewonesisnotmyproblem ;) |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 20:25:51 @alan Thank you, Alan! This has been a crucial practice at least since the SusanAlbumParty incident back in 2012! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2012/nov/22/twitter-susan-boyle-susanalbumparty |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.01.2025 20:30:27 @alan I never even thought of that! Thank you so much for teaching us the importance. |
