Dear #Fediverse app devs (including the #mastodon web interface itself): PLEASE stop autocorrecting my #CamelCase'd hashtags into all-lower-case.
That's just silly. You should be autocorrecting lower case to camel case instead! Grab the list of all hashtags with the same letters without regard to case, and if there's a plurality of them with the same capitalization (not counting all-lower-case), suggest that. Duh! ;)
edit: self-tone-policing. I come across a little too snippy.
It's a very old convention. I first learned of it looking into Macintosh programming in the early 90s, but it goes back much further than that:
In terms of #accessibility, I am told that screen readers can use #CamelCase as hints for how to break up conjoined words. And they're just easier to read in general, e.g.
#iamtheverymodelofamodernmajorgeneral
vs
#iAmTheVeryModelOfAModernMajorGeneral2 (Mastodon won't show the same hash tag twice, funny that)
Wrote this for the hell-site forever ago, but the example of mixed-case hashtags is true here: https://adrianroselli.com/2018/01/improving-your-tweet-accessibility.html#Hash
Twitter persists. Even if you have moved to Mastodon, Twitter will persist. As such, we need to continue to ensure it is accessible to all users. This post gathers some tips you can and should use. Hashtags Emoji Unicode Image Alternative Text Embedding Alternative Text in a Tweet Web Interface…
Yikes. Nice race condition. :P
Yeah. I'm stubborn for not wanting an extra space. XD
Yeah, auto-camelCasing would be challenging in many languages. But at the very least not autocorrecting to all-lower-case should be default.
Yup. Not a "major major" issue, but a constant minor annoyance, of the Microdoft "we know better (even if we don''t)" variety.
I think #PascalCase did come before it, yes.
I thought it was more like #CamelCase and #dromedaryCase? :)
lol, me neither. Just saw it in the wikipedia article. I remember there being two different names for thisThing and ThisThing, but I forgot what they were called. ;)
What if you just leave the tag alone if it's the same as the #1 suggestion without regard to case?
Example:
(space after # because mastodon won't print a hashtag more than once, which is case-insensitive... hmmm!!!!)
I type # GoodDay
#1 match is # goodday
If tolower(mytag) == tolower(firstmatch), then leave_tag_uncorrected;
Kinda like smartcase in vim. That's not a bad idea.
The mean that hash tags can have spaces in them? How would that work?
Of course Mastodon doesn't. 
🤦♂️
What can I do to help raise awareness for #accessibility issues in #fedi? I don't have any significant vision issues myself, but I have family and #FediFriends that do.
How does it apply to hashtags? Or would it replace hashtags? Seems a bit convoluted; not sure I'm understanding howard is to be used from my reading of the article
Ahh, gotcha. That's cool.
Ah, is that the one where the first character is lower case?
I'm fine with either one. As long as it's readable and works helps low vision peeps.
Ahh... That's a pain to type, though, although it DOES look better.
@RL_Dane
> PLEASE stop autocorrecting my CamelCase'd hashtags into all-lower-case
I second that.
You're not the first person I've seen expressing frustration about this. Maybe if we all open issues about it on the issue trackers of the apps we use, or add thumbs up to any existing ones, it might get fixed?
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