When you write hashtags that contain multiple words, make the first letter of each word a capital letter, for example #DogsOfMastodon. This will make the tag readable to blind people.
Blind people use the internet through screen reader apps, which read text out aloud. By putting a capital at the start of each word in a hashtag, you are telling the screen reader how to say the tag correctly.
In the non-techy world this is generally known as "CamelCase".
(Techy people may call it PascalCase)
p.s. Before any programmers chip in, I know that there's "camelCase" in programming, but that doesn't get across that every word should be capitalised.
"CamelCase" is the easiest to remember and clearest in its intent. I know it's not an accurate term in programming, but this post is aimed at non-programmers doing non-programming tasks.
I truly thought that it was not necessary to capitalize the initial letter of the string. Why is it necessary to capitalize the initial letter if the idea is to indical separate words through using capitalization?
I'm not a programmer, FWIW, but camelCase is perfectly understandable, as is PascalCase.
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