Reina Jul 25, 2023

I have two questions about legibility for blind people on Fedi.

Does word shortenings and stuff make things illegible to you? For instance, if I write "smth" instead of something or "idk" instead of "I don't know", does that make it hard for you to follow?

I'm kinda oldfashioned when it comes to emoji. I usually write them using symbols rather than unicode. Does that become a jarbled mess for you or do you understand the meaning of things like :) and xD?

If any of these are an accessability concern to you, I'll do my best to address it for future posts of mine.

#Accessability #Blind

Show threadStevenJul 25, 2023
@reina What you have to remember is that out of the box the SR probably doesn't have a definition for shortened words as they seem to be ever evolving and that SR's will read "SMTH" and "IDK" differently than "smth" and "idk" sometimes. Just be consistent with caps if you plan to use them. As far as old school emoticons, they are just punctuation, if the user has punctuation reading set low, then they probably won't see half of them. #blind
Show threadD.Hamlin.Music
@baethyn @reina the emoticon thing depends if they convert to a visual, like :) reads fine even though I have punctuation off.
Jul 25, 2023 at 1:03pmWeb
Show threadSarah RussellJul 25, 2023
@dhamlinmusic @baethyn @reina That is very screen reader dependant. Some can transcribe them where they can be identified and read aloud, but that is not usually a default setting.
Show threadStevenJul 25, 2023
@dhamlinmusic @reina yes, but NVDA for example doesn't come with that emoticon predefined. So while emoticons are fine, if the user wants an output they'll have to either find or create their definitions for each one. #blind