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Repeated emojis in social media posts are a nightmare for screen reader users.

Hereā€™s why, in a post from Threads, where people are filling the posts with a mass use of emojis.

Apparently, Dunkin sells donutsā€¦

Follow these tips for emoji use if you don't want to infuriate blind and partially sighted people šŸ¤¬
- limit them to one or two per post
- don't put them between each word
- don't use them one after the other
- don't use a different emoji for each bullet point

#WorldEmojiDay #emoji


Accessibility vs emojis ā€” 6 great guidelines for usage: https://uxdesign.cc/accessibility-vs-emojis-ec17fddb07ec #emoji #a11y #accessibility


:mastodon: :opensource: ICYMI, #Mastodon instances can each have a custom set of #emoji.

Here are the ones we currently have.

Our instances updates #customEmoji every few weeks so send a note if you have suggestions.

https://emojos.in/floss.social?show_all=true&show_animated=true


Sadly, the IBus ctrl + . shortcut for inserting emoji also conflicts with GNOMEā€™s ctrl + . shortcut for *drumroll* inserting emoji. So, when GNOME is being used, the distribution should really disable or change the IBus shortcut as GNOMEā€™s graphical emoji picker overlay is far superior to the IBusā€™s.

Also, I think Iā€™m going to end up changing 1Passwordā€™s shortcut as I want to be able to use the GNOME emoji picker popover on web forms too.

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