Translations:Best practices/3/en

There are blind people who use the Fediverse and are reliant on screen readers to deliver them what's on their screen. This technology is not perfect and it can't decipher what sighted people can understand. To help screen readers properly pronounce the content on the screen, here are some ways to make your posts screen reader friendly:

• Use image and video descriptions
  Describe what is going on in your videos and images for blind and deaf people. You don't need to do so in the post, but there is a caption function in Mastodon and most other software.
• Use CamelCase
  When using hashtags that contain composite nouns or are even full sentences write the first letter of each word large. For example, #FridaysForFuture or #WhatDoWeWantClimateJustice.
• Don't use too many emoji
  Screen readers read them as text and lots of emoji can be horrible to listen to.