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Same thing with putting the hand clap emoji between words to add extra smugness to a tweet – it's horrible for screen readers: https://twitter.com/aardrian/sta

• crazygringo 6y ago
  Seems like it's screen readers that ought to improve their reading, no? Instead of "clickable clapping hand sign quick graphic emoji" or whatever ridiculouslness it's saying... ...shouldn't the screen reader just say "clap", perhaps in a different pitch or intonation that one signifies "emoji"? The tweet can be perfectly read by a human being as "If clap y'all clap don't clap" etc... with the "clap" in a higher pitch or more emphasized intonation. The emoji are fine. Screen readers just need to improve how they read emoji. Which doesn't seem particularly hard to engineer.