#acccesability

here are some examples on bad versus good censoring.

lets use the words shit and fuck as an example for swear words ( as people censor those a lot )

bad censoring:

fvck

$hit

f*ck

sh1t

good censoring

adding the tags #f word / #f word cw

adding the tags #s word / #s word cw

adding the tags #swearing warning / #swearing cw

adding something at the start of the post like " swearing warning " " f word warning " " s word warning"

( i don't personally think swearing should be censored, but it really just depends on who you're talking to and what community you're talking in ( like in some communities that have a large amount of younger members, they often require swearing to be censored ) )

okay, now lets have some examples on how to censor slurs.

( obligatory op can reclaim these slurs )

[f slur warning and t slur warning]

bad censoring:

f@g

tr@nny

f*g

trvnny

good cencoring:

adding the tags #f slur / #f slur cw

adding the tags #t slur / #t slur cw

adding the tags #slur warning / #slur cw

adding something at the start of the post like " slurs warning " " f slur warning " " t slur warning "

to add onto that, if you are referring to a slur you cant reclaim, instead of censoring it with an asterisk, just write it like:

[f slur]

[t slur]

to get the point across of what you are referencing without actually saying the slur.

when you change the letters while censoring, not only can it break screen readers and make it hard to read a post, its also harder for people to filter out the stuff they don't want to see, because if someone has, say, the tag / phrase sexual assault filtered, writing " s*****l assu@lt " isn't going to be picked up be that filter.