When you write hashtags that contain multiple words, make the first letter of each word a capital letter, for example . This will make the tag readable to blind people.

Blind people use the internet through screen reader apps, which read text out aloud. By putting a capital at the start of each word in a hashtag, you are telling the screen reader how to say the tag correctly.

In the non-techy world this is generally known as "CamelCase".

(Techy people may call it PascalCase)

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Feoh

@feditips Thank you for that I've never been sure how to handle it. I usually just break the multi-word out into its sub words and make each a hashtag (e.g. #camel #case) but that's not ideal either.

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@feditips I always try to do that because it looks good

Now I know it's better than that

Non tech people call Pascal Case camel Case whyyyy?

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Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國

@feditips
What about placing underscores between the words of a multiword hashtag — is that any better/worse? 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Peace not War.☮️

@feditips I do not put #s in ALT. Are you advising whether ALT or not use the CamelCase?

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Leisureguy

@feditips I thought there was a difference in that Pascal case capitalizes the first word of the string and camel case does not:

theserverside.com/answer/Pasca

I use camel case, though if the first word is a proper noun (e.g., "Mastodon" as the name of what we're on), I capitalize it. Thus I would write "PascalCase" but "camelCase."

#PascalCase #camelCase

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ArtilectZed

@feditips It's not just sight-impaired users will benefit from doing this :D

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Aaron Ouellette

@feditips Mastodon and apps need to better understand this use case, and stop suggesting down cased hashtags. So annoying to get it righ, only to have autoincorrect it.

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bettybarcode (she/her) 🚲

@feditips
Camel case is easier for *everyone* to read. And avoids the kind of embarrassment that happened to the people of Pen Island:
#penisland

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Robin Frost

@feditips Thank you so much for highlighting this. Many of us are grateful.

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Josh Levinson

@feditips If someone uses the term PascalCase, they are retiring within five years

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Wmson

@feditips

I am amazed how many toots don't do this, even well-known users like Neil Gaiman don't do it.

I'm new to all this # use, but I was told to use capitals so that's what I do.

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Steve S

@feditips ah Pascal. Good memories

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Oliver Cox :possum:

@feditips When I'm approving new trending hashtags on page.lgbt, I always try to remember to change the display name of multiple-word tags to use PascalCase whilst I'm at it.

It doesn't force people to use it, but it does mean that the dropdown menu which appears when you start typing a hashtag will show them in PascalCase correctly, and if you click on one from that list to insert it, it'll insert it with the correct capitalisation. So hopefully it encourages people to follow that style of capitalisation when writing their own.

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EO

@feditips Thanks for that great idea (who may it concern or find out),to inform people and asking for make human beings being include 👊❤️

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DavidLotsOfDogs

@feditips she volunteered to share her photo just in case someone followed the #dogsofmastodon hashtag and expected to see a dog

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Allisonn Church

@feditips Thank you for sharing this! I did not realize. Much appreciated.

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Jet Bradley

@feditips I didn't know screen readers could differentiate CamelCase at all, that's super cool!

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e. hashman

@feditips Blind people aren't the only people who use screenreaders. It's helpful for all sorts of disabilities!

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UgaBertheauD

@feditips Esto no lo sabía, pero lo tendré en cuenta con los próximos #HashTags
Gracias por compartir este tip tan importante relativo a los lectores de pantalla

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