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Just saw another display name in "fancy" letters (they look like they're from a typewriter) and you should know that screen readers do not treat those as normal letters and read the whole word. They read the name of each individual character. Every single time.

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A longer thread.

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i remember someone on twitter posted a video of what their screen reader read out when someone with a display name like that posted a thread and it was nightmarish

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