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Re: ALL CAPS- Recomendation

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Jan 21, 2022 2:42PM

Also depends on the all-caps text. Sometimes words will be read as if they were acronyms, depending on a variety of heuristics. When I capitalize "is" mid-sentence, NVDA likes to pronounce the letters "I" and "S" rather than treat it as a word with any emphasis. e.g., "Jeremy IS here today".

Depending on the surrounding context and how "smart" the screen reader is trying to be, you can get annoying results. Probably not the worst thing you can do, but I agree with Lisa - you should limit use of all caps as much as possible.

I still do not understand why designers love to throw all-caps in so many places. It's like they forgot we have bold, italics, and font sizes when we want visual callouts (e.g., table headers, page titles, etc.)