So, as we all know, text in all caps is always at least a mild accessibility issue

[conuly]

It's simply less readable for everybody, and especially for people who have special difficulty in distinguishing between very similar letter shapes.

But I've also been told that it's a big problem for people who rely on screenreaders, which I've dutifully told other people. Googling would seem to confirm this but - is that really true? I mean, it seems strange to me, and even if it was true that doesn't mean it's still true...?

(On a related note, I've found "Please don't do this, it's an accessibility issue" gets worse responses than "This is an accessibility issue, please don't do it". Can somebody explain this? I do not understand this. Why is this? Why are people like this? Why are people so weird? Why?)

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Comments

[adrian_turtle]

There was a thing people were doing to be emphatic and/or cutesy, with capital letters and asterisks. Instead of word (lowercase) or WORD (uppercase), they would do W*O*R*D (obnoxious case.) Or perhaps I just find it personally galling. In places with emoticons, I sometimes even saw the clapping emoji between letters, and in case somebody is using a screen reader I am not even trying to use that style for "Miss Lucy had a baby." I haven't seen it recently, though. Maybe it just became unfashionable, replaced by teh next big thing.

I wonder if the other ways to emphasize text are difficult to read. I find uppercase is no more challenging than italic, when it's just a few words. Underlining is great where line spacing is adequate, but if I can't control line spacing it confuses my eye. It's probably great with a screen reader, though.