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I prefer CamelCase! Says kind of what it looks like.

@feditips Except that when I start typing a tag, if I let it autocomplete, it decapitalizes. Maybe the Mastodon tools need to be updated to prevent that?

@feditips a11y aside, it's just F*CKING READABLE!!! :D and yes, PascalCase sound waaay cooler!

@feditips you have no idea how confused I was when you said "How blind people read."

@feditips It can't hurt to repeat this tip over and over again, as well as adding alt text to your images and graphics so the blind can "see" them.

@feditips I do this because it makes it more readable for humans. I never thought about screen readers. I learn so much cool stuff on this Fediverse thing (unlike on the bird).

Oh, and I've heard both PascalCase and CamelCase, though the latter seems to be more prevelant.

@feditips it helps quite a bit with dispelling ambiguity as well. Prior to them adding a hyphen to their URL it was quite humorous explaining to people that #ExpertsExchange was in fact a tech site and not a shady fly-by-night pseudo-medical site XD

@feditips «This will make the tag readable to blind people» you say i am the only non-blind who can't easily read #bullshitlikethis?

@feditips aka #TitleCase

@feditips thank you. I was using a screen reader, but I am not totally blind, and I found an app that doubles print size w/out going off page. But I understand.

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I do not know where the term camel case came from. I have always known it as title case.

@feditips It's unfortunate that the web interface has autocomplete of hashtags that removes the camel case that the user is typing.

@feditips 😆 best way to engage a whole bunch of programmers. Just state something and they will correct you.

@feditips #FemEdTech ⬆️

@feditips it also just makes it easier to read, period.

@feditips It also makes is easier for non blind people to read. Especially is it's long.

@feditips Hear, hear.

And as a general rule, even for those without visual impairment, proper spacing and capitalization are key for ease of reading. #thisishardertoread than #ThisIsHarderToRead.

@feditips Not your fault, but I’m musing on the last 25 years that I’ve been frequently annoyed about advice that tell us all to modify our behaviours to make “screen readers” work, when it all seems quite technically possible that the *screen reader software makers* could just do a better job coping with the world as it is.

For example in this specific case a screen reader could contain a dictionary. Hopefully now with #AI becoming prevalent we will finally see better readers!

@feditips that is extremely useful and I never thought about that.

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Good to know. I always do that but didn't even think about screen readers. Thank you for the tip