Person 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
@pawpower Is having them interleaved also inconvenient? I prefer it to having them at the end to save on character count.
@mauve No, not unless there's like more than five or so but if it's part of the message it's just a word and there's an extra couple of braille characters for the hashtag it's not bad.
@pawpower good to know ty! Mind if I ask some questions about your tech setup? I'm planning to migrate away from screens in the near future and it's a bit overwhelming.
@mauve Not at all feel free to ask I'm happy to help
@pawpower Cool! Are there mastodon clients you know of that are accessibility focused? Any tips navigating all this data? I found keyboard nav is really tedious cause all the posts have lots of focusable areas and no easy way to skip to older pages quickly 😅
@mauve It depends on your method of access e.g. pc, Mac, iPhone android etc. i use iPhone and the clients I like best are ona and Toot. I also find mute filters are your friend because they help weed out stuff you aren't interested in. Such as for me if people are in the habit of live tooting tv programs or advertising radio shows or bible verses of the day etc. I create a mute filter with either the hashtag or particular words. And it takes a way a lot of the things that aren't meaningful for me.
@pawpower Good to know, thank you. I'm on Linux (using the web interface) and on Android with Tusky. They've been so so. I'll try muting more of my timeline. I've mostly taken to unfollowing folks that post too much and making more focused "lists" for specific topics. Might just need to cut down a lot more to make it manageable. 😅 Is a braille display useful for skimming through large amounts of text? I've been curious to learn.
