Toot by eshtoneshton (indieweb.social)

@theynege @Pawpower In the case of hashtags, camelcase does the work of indicating spaces between words, at least as far as text-to-speech is concerned. It still takes up extra cells on braille displays though. What happens with alternate letter capitalization is that in text-to-speech situations, capitalization of letters can effect the way they're spoken. The text-to-speech assumes that capital letters should be emphasized differently than lower-case letters, because the assumption is in acronyms letters should spoken out instead of pronounced. So this context gets ported to everywhere else, since text-to-speech dictionaries don't do specific contexts.

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