Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" πŸ˜„

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

@jond Sadly # PleromaLowerCasesAllHashtags.

#pleromalowercasesallhashtags
@notclacke So I've heard. *sigh* Seems like such a bad design decision. :/

@saper @jond @notclacke The devs are pretty good at fixing things for accessibility when brought to their attention.

You can still write your own tags in camel case so when they are read on your posts they are readable.
#SusanAlbumParty displays correctly. As long as you don’t tab through it will display properly. I don’t know if it reads as displayed. Further, if I create a tag, #RandoTag .

@grryboy These days you can. Four years ago when this thread originated, Pleroma would normalize your tag to lowercase and I think Mastodon would normalize to whatever casing it had seen before, not merely suggest it like it does today.
@clacke OMG, sorry. Talk about necro’ing. πŸ˜…
@grryboy Post necromancy is a Good Thing Actually and connects our present to where we came from. 😊