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Tweet in bold, italics and strikethrough text

Dinesh Pandiyan on January 22, 2019

TL;DR - I built a tool - tweetfancy.io to tweet in bold, italics and strikethrough text. Ever fancied tweeting with bold, italics or strikethrough...
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Conlin Durbin

This is really neat and I love when people play with unicode, but one thing to keep in mind - this will break any screen reader reading your tweets.

Here is a example of what I mean!

Really don't want to rain on the parade here - this is a super cool tool! Just keep in mind the accessibility ramifications!

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Dinesh Pandiyan

Spot on and that's why I added a note at the end of the post. Also to chime in, this is not any different from using smileys. Play as long as know what you're doing.

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Pavneet Singh Saund • Edited

A note on emojis. Screen readers can read them out loud with description, which actually conveys quite a lot of feeling / information.

I can see how going overboard with emojis can be seen as noise, but they do convey meaning, emotion and intent. Even for screen readers when used in moderation.

This is the most straight to the point example I found right now: youtu.be/Pt1TOgz3Y4Y

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Conlin Durbin

Ah awesome! I didn't see you note in the post. Not sure how I missed it!

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macademician

Dear @joindicebreaker,

I know it was just a one-off, but the playthrough of Labyrinth brought me so much joy. I did not know how much I loved @johnneh and @KubeWhelan as muppets. If we can ever finagle the return of sir Peebles and Mr. Wensleydale, it will be a great joy.

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JoppeDC • Edited

wow italic emoji's :D Nice post! Will be very usefull!

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Erebos Manannán

You might want to fix your SSL https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/nwre17ovypnlog7slvne.png

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Dinesh Pandiyan • Edited

This is unlikely to happen as I'm using Netlify's default SSL. I'll try to dive deep into this.

Although I'm wondering if this is specific to an issue/extension in your browser. Would appreciate if you could add anything that might help debugging this.

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Erebos Manannán

Well the only thing that can make any difference is HTTPS Everywhere, but since it seems the link I clicked already pointed to https:// it's not likely it made a difference, and it's just that Netlify sucks.