There are a lot of blind people on here, who use screen reader software to tell them what is on the screen. To help screen reader users, it's a good idea to use emoji rather than old-style smileys.
For example š will be read out loud as "smile" because that's its alt text. However, :D will be read out loud as "colon D".
(Some old-style smileys do work with screen readers, but most don't. Emoji are safer.)
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@feditips @weirdwriter A bigger problem was that my screen reader read the whole message in Swedish. There is no indication of the language used.
When I instead switched to the web page (Iām normally using an app), it read the emoji as āgrinning face with smiling eyesā (but the Swedish equivalent) followed by āimageā (in English), āsmileā (in Swedish) and finally āsmileā (in Swedish).
So the official web page of this message presents the emoji as an image rather than text. Why?
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