Hey, I recently found a cool website tweetfancy.io. It lets you add styles to your tweets, and it's pretty straightforward as it uses simple Markdown. If you wanna make your tweets stand out, it's worth checking out!
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๐ Tweet with bold, italics and strikethough text
Ever fancied tweeting with bold, italics or strikethrough text?
Twitter may not support it but you can.
Write in markdown and grab your fancy text.
Note: The generated bold, italics and strikethrough texts are UTF Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. So if you run them by a screen reader, you'll find that the reader reads them out by their symbol name. But then, all screen readers struggle reading smileys too (๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐) and that doesn't stop us from using smileys.
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Copyright (c) 2019 Dineshkumar Pandiyan
Top comments (5)
Only a small note: it's a disaster for Twitter's accessibility and screen readers :-(
Take the text here:
It's super easy to tweet in ๐ฏ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ or ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ด. You can even write with sฬถtฬถrฬถiฬถkฬถeฬถtฬถhฬถrฬถoฬถuฬถgฬถhฬถ.
put it in TextEdit in MacOS, right click, choose
Speech -> Start speakingand cringe :DThis might look cool on screen but it's a nightmare for screenreader users. I recommend avoiding it. In fact, I don't think it's overreacting to say that you should never ever do this.
This is what your tweet will sound like to a screenreader user:
@rhymes commented above that this is a small note. I respectfully disagree. Doing this is a huge compromise in common decency.
I agree with you disagreeing with me โ๏ธ
I have an alias for bold text
Nobody even reads my tweets, but for some reason, I worry about a screen reader? lol