Gregory's Serversuggestion: hashtags are important here. please use “Camel Case” so screen readers understand what the words are and can pronounce them properly. example:
#DogsOfMastodon not #dogsofmastodon
make sense??
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@jdormansteele2 KISS, KISS, KISS. a simple & broad-brush explanation using an easily memorable phrase is worth more than (IMHO spurious) linguistic precision. I am trying to communicate without having to then explain my explanation. I am no longer teaching coders, I am making (hopefully gentle) suggestions to help non-technical folks understand. make sense? @jeffsonstein @jeffsonstein Makes sense. As a deafblind user who rarely uses speech on #ScreenReaders I am curious, though: DoScreenReadersActuallyPronounceCamelCaseCorrectly? ^^ @jeffsonstein thank you for the reminder! Now off to find some #DogsOfMastadon 😀 Here is my borrowed pup - I look after her for my friend when she works odd shifts @lukstru <ROFL/> KISS my friend, remember KISS when explaining things to folks. newbies remember the term “camel case” in a way they will not remember a long ago language and it’s conventions. @lukstru it is something I chant to myself, to try to remember to be appropriately simple @jeffsonstein technically, your example is PascalCase, camelCase doesn’t start with capitals. @harrypujols <sigh/> this is not a site full of coders, and this was an explanation written in terms "everyday folks" will understand and remember. I used to give a lecture about "spurious accuracy", which was mostly about remembering context when measuring/reporting/communicating. if it would communicate an idea faster and clearer and in a stickier way, then I would label it "fred". <shrug/> no worries @jeffsonstein if you don't do it for other people do it to save yourself from #susanalbumparty @rob apologies for mis-communicating... the "screen reader software" to which I was referring is generally a part of the Web browser, operating system, or other underlying software. the screen reader issue is the same on theBirdSite etc. am I being clearer? @jeffsonstein yes, perfectly. I was just joking about the endless and rather silly programmer debate about CamelCase vs snake_case variable naming. Your point about screen reader software is well-taken!  @jeffsonstein this also goes for instance admins; just because a trend shows up for approval in all lowercase doesn't mean you have to make it trend in all lowercase, you can edit the capitalization in the trends moderation interface |
@jeffsonstein What is the importance of first letter being capitalized too?