they don't read out at all? oh no! i would have thought that it would at least print words like "upside down smile" or "heart".
i will try my best to use them as an enhancement only then, like, to maybe only emphasize a statement instead of including them mid-text.
example 1) i am happy with this ๐
versus
example 2) i am ๐ with this.
in example 1, i have included a "smile" emoji at the end of the statement. in example 2, i replaced the word "happy" with a "smile" emoji.
if example 2 causes grief, then i will try my best to never write like that again.
i went down a rabbit hole last night about this, and found that there still isn't good support for alt text tagging on lemmy.
closest i found for emojis is something like this: ๐
at the end of the previous sentence, i included an emoji of a hand waving goodbye, and i have attempted to tag it using markdown. but, my suspicion is that it tries to read the alt text as a link, and it therefore doesn't work.
this is apparently the best lemmy can do for emojis. i think that is not good enough, and this needs to be improved by the developers
thank you for providing me with a teachable moment about accessibility.
i will do my best to keep readability in mind for the future. <3