Now that I can edit this post, to more accurate info: please
avoid using a LOT of hashtags in the body of your posts. (Not just for users of screenreaders but also for ND folks who have trouble with visually busy text. )

Do be sure to CamelCase your hashtags for screenreaders.

Here's a great discussion on the topic: https://legal.social/@krisnelson/109351256065488083

Also some screenreaders (and a lot of ND brains) can skip a block of hashtags at the bottom:
#VisuallyImpaired #blind #accessibility

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As someone who regularly uses screen readers and works with blind colleagues who rely on screen readers to access the internet, please let me assure you that using #hashtags within the body of a post is not a problem. You don’t need to move them to the end! It is helpful to use #CamelCase to avoid gibberish for many word combos, but the extra # is so minimal as to disappear given how much else screen readers say & how fast they speak to experienced users.

Legal.Social
@annaraven @EverydayMoggie I have also read that screen readers will have an easier time understanding compound-word hashtags if they are written in CamelCase, with the first letter of each word (including the first word) capitalized. Does this make sense?

@kentbrew @annaraven @EverydayMoggie

Yes, and it is precisely what was requested last night by a sight impaired user. If you don't put caps at the start of each word in the hashtag, the computer will read out #AllTheWordsAsOneLongWord or even worse, will spell out the whole thing.

That should really be a thing for #AllTheHashtagsThatWeUseInMastodon .