Everytime people put emojis between every single word of a post, I think about the accessibility issues that tends to present.
@maloki Every time someone starts their display name with emoji I think about how someone with a screen reader probably knows them as "Eye in Speech Bubble Optical Disk" or "Rainbow Flag Octopus".
@Vavassor @maloki
How usable even is mastodon with a screenreader, & do they have good support for emoji yet?
My limited / secondhand understanding is that, like a lot of software that has a relatively small audience, accessibility software like the screenreader is perpetually about 20 years behind & about 20% effective in terms of support, despite pushes.
@enkiv2 @maloki I don't know about the web site. I've tried to make a decent experience with TalkBack in Tusky but it could still use some smoothing out. Like, the focus order isn't great and some errors aren't signaled well.
But yeah, most do support emoji but read a very exact description of the image. Which can be short, like "Cat", or more like "Face With Stuck-Out Tongue & Winking Eye".
@Vavassor @maloki
Good to know!
Those sound like they might be the official unicode consortium names for the emoji.
Do ligature emoji (such as flags) work?