Looks like Mastodon will be getting expanded support for showing styles in posts. Micro.blog already sends bold, italics, and other basics to Mastodon, so this will be a nice improvement for folks reading in Mastodon.
David Johnson I wasn’t clear from the thread if this will include links, ie Markdown formatted links. Do you know?
Jari Pennanen 
Jari Pennanen @davew @manton HTML is accessible but Markdown isn't.
Markdown is perhaps fine for modifying text, but I've seen just few days ago a complaint about Markdown for screen readers, it's horrible.
Hearing out loud Multiply ... Multiply... gets really boring really quick.
Mastodon already uses HTML for rendering most things, and it's perfect for screen readers. This is a hill I'm ready to die on 😊
SpaceLifeForm On my instance, which runs a fork called Glitch-soc, I can, via profile setting, use one of plain text, HTML, or markdown.
I prefer plaintext, have barely explored the HTML tags, and do not like markdown.
YMMV.
Jari Pennanen @SpaceLifeForm @davew @manton That makes sense. Plaintext without any Markdown is probably the easiest to consume if you don't need formatting.
But when formatting is required well formed HTML is better for consuming with screen readers than Markdown formatting.
Simply because most screen-readers have robust support for basic HTML tags such as strong-tag, and em-tag.
Whereas Markdown-like jumble of *, _ > characters are a difficult problem for screen readers as they don't have meaning alone.
David Johnson Thank you. I’m sorry if I missed that somewhere.
While I am writing, I have the iOS v3.0 beta running on my phone with notifications enabled. However, I’m not receiving any notifications. I have re-installed but no luck. Any thoughts?
