@FediTips Quick question: if a #Hashtag is one word, is it OK for it to be all lowercase for accessibility sake or does it also need to be capitalized?

[sayonaraminasan@urusai.social]

@FediTips Quick question: if a #Hashtag is one word, is it OK for it to be all lowercase for accessibility sake or does it also need to be capitalized?

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@sayonaraminasan

You should capitalise the first letter of each word, so that people using screen reader software can hear each word spoken separately.

#ThisIsHowToDoIt would read as "this is how to do it"

#thisishowtodoit would read as gibberish because the screen reader software can't tell where the words begin.

[rinmari@urusai.social]

@FediTips I think what @sayonaraminasan meant is if it's a one-word hashtag like #This or #Potato or

[sayonaraminasan@urusai.social]

@rinmari @FediTips indeed. Does a screen reader have trouble with a #one #word #hash #tag if all are lowercase?

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@sayonaraminasan @rinmari

Ahhh, sorry!

If it's one word, it doesn't matter what case it is in because the screen reader will read it out as one word.

Only thing to do is not put random capital letters in the middle of the word, because that would make the reader interpret it as multiple words.