Accessibility Awareness on Nostr: Don't use emojis to replace words. It increases cognitive load for everyone. You ...
Don't use emojis to replace words. It increases cognitive load for everyone. You can't be sure people will interpret the emoji as you intended. Emoji alt text descriptions used by screen reading and text to speech software may not be what you intended the emoji to mean.
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