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I have talked about accessibility a lot here. But now, it's my turn to ask some questions! I fully admit to being guilty of not capitalising the first letter of each word when writing tags, unless said words are usually capitalised. As a screen reader user, I do realise this can lead to confusion. But are searches on Friendica and elsewhere in the Fediverse case sensitive? If I write goodwriting will it show up in the same listings as GoodWriting? If not, which should I follow, and what about single words, such as writing, which screen readers say correctly? Should I capitalise those (or not) for consistancy?

#accessibility #blind #Fediverse #Friendica #hashtags #screenreaders

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in reply to Georgiana Brummell

I know that mastodon hashtags aren't case sensitive, so the capitalization variants all point to the same content. I would expect friendica to be the same, but I'm not sure.
in reply to Georgiana Brummell

hashtags should by convention be camel case, so the first word is not capitalised, while all the others are, so if your hashtag is just one word, it falls in the first word rule, which means it doesn't have to be capitalised. Because of this however, hashtag searches on the fediverse are case sensitive