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Discussion on: Tweet in bold, italics and strikethrough text

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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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Conlin Durbin

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

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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