ALL CAPS – as subtle as a chat with Brian Blessed or James Earl Jones. But that’s not the worst thing about them. Did you know that a screen reader will read out a word written in all caps, one letter at a time? O n e l e t t e r a t a t i m e.
The all caps style you see on
- CTAs
- course finder search boxes
- STUDY and RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE in the megamenu
- headings on the home page etc
are applied to the page as it requested by a web browser, but should be written in sentence case as usual.
We also keep the use of all caps to a minimum on the website as they make reading harder for some people with dyslexia, and we know that a significant proportion of our students are registered as dyslexic. So give the caps a rest, leave them to that one shouty relative on an ancient Nokia…