The Witchy BitchesPerson in my DM's, "hey did you see XYZ thing so and so posted?" No, no actually I did not, and do you know why? Because there were at least 5 hashtags at the very beginning of said post and I'm reading everything on a 40 cell braille display, which means I get 40 characters at once before I need to scroll.... So if you choose to put more than say, 3 hashtags in the beginning of your post I'm probably moving on because my time for spending on the interwebs is not limitless... people are, of course free to do what they want but... If you are using hashtags you obviously want engagement of some kind. So putting them at the end might be the better bet from an accessibility standpoint. #JustSaying
Colin B.π¨π¦@pawpower a year ago someone played an audio clip of what text to speech readers did with inline hashtags. It was incredibly jarring, and I've sworn to put all tags at the end ever since.
Rose Puckey π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ³οΈβπ@swordgeek @pawpower Thank you, I was hoping someone would mention this. I've been reading this thread wondering why so many people are finding ways not to do something so simple as putting # tags at the end of a toot and not at the beginning for braille users and not in the text for screen reader users. It isn't a debate, it's a request from someone who uses braille to read your toots - or not. It's like listening to a bunch of 5 year old children trying to see how far they can push the boundaries.
I can't personally comment on braille but can with screen reader users. Imagine, if you can, having a toot read to you and every time there's a # sign, you hear HESHTAG! Even if you can see well enough to read toots (which I can from a distance when everything is larger in a TV screen) and you need to use a dark mode for the contrast, all the needy # tags blend unto the background.
These are some of the reasons I'm hardly ever here any more. The insistence of hashtags at the beginning and in the toot ruins the entire toot.