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Listen to a screen-read hashtag

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In our blog post called 'Alt text and beyond', we talk about how screen-readers can struggle to read long hashtags when they are in lower case.

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Here's an example, using the VoiceOver function on the Mac operating system. It reads a hashtag in lower case, and then the same hashtag in upper camel case.

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Can you make out the words in both versions?

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The hashtag is #ComeForTheLoveStayForTheParty.​

 

The lower-case version sounds roughly like: "Numbercommieforthuhliverstayfortherpurty"​.

 

The camel-case version reads each word distinctly. The hash symbol is still read out as "Number".

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