szicariMay 5, 2025
A feral Kass (they/she)
Friendly reminder. I know people like to put emojis of stuff they like or are interested in their display name, but when you’ve got more than 2 or 3 of them, it makes reading your posts with a screen reader really tedious because the screen reader also reads out the coded descriptions of all those emojis. It makes it take a while for your screen name to be read out even before getting to the text of your post. It makes reading your threads unendurable, no matter how important the content is.
Apr 8, 2025 at 12:38amWeb
Show threadMuro deGrizecoApr 8, 2025

@JustGrist

Hey, that's good to learn about. Thanks.

Show threadFull Metal AccountantApr 8, 2025
@JustGrist
<sad face> <hugs>
Show threadMurdoc Addams 🧛🏻 🇨🇦Apr 8, 2025
@JustGrist
Your description reminds me of (some?) voice mail systems, where you have to wait for it to voice out the full phone number, date and time for each message and it gets grating. So if it's like that then I can see where you're coming from. Ok, I could anyway, but more so in this case. I suppose I don't need the vampire in my name.
Show threadThe Animal and the MachineApr 8, 2025

@JustGrist @tveskov
I mean this genuinely, from a point of caring. You need better the makers to give you better screen readers. Ones that give you options like an option where if it detects more than one emoji it says ‘emojis’. It feels like these readers are not user tested.

Sometimes emojis is how people feel.

Show threadClifford OliverApr 9, 2025
@JustGrist I was unaware of this. In future, I will make an effort to control my (ADHD related) enthusiasm to one emoji. Henceforth, it will be "ha," instead of "ha, ha, ha." Sometimes the implicit, in its subtlety and economy, has the greatest impact. I understand, with all my heart, how irritating the repetition of the reader must be and I have no problem with making an effort to change what is (probably) an irritating habit on its face, if you will. Or, as it were. Signing this with a smile.
Show threadGlyphMay 5, 2025
@JustGrist Thanks for sharing. It's really useful to learn this sort of stuff about the experience of screen-reader users that sighted users won't experience. Although I really wish that we could apply more pressure to the screenreader software or the apps themselves to provide these affordances, rather than requiring individual users to either give up caring about blind users or constantly being killjoys for everyone else, and never ever using any visually interesting or fun uses of unicode
Show threadPeteMay 5, 2025
@JustGrist fixed, thanks
Show threadMichaelMay 6, 2025
@JustGrist Ain’t that the truth! I don’t use screen readers, but when driving my phone speaks out notifications. And getting notifications from users with 5 emojis is seriously annoying…
Show threadHavyhh2May 6, 2025
@JustGrist good to know this....