For years, people have used Unicode generators to make text in LinkedIn posts look bold. The problem: These aren’t actually bold letters, but different Unicode symbols that just look like them. Screen readers might read them incorrectly or skip them entirely. tollwerk wrote a great article about this, and I posted about it on LinkedIn a while ago.
But something has changed! LinkedIn now supports actual bold text in posts. There’s still no bold button in the editor, but if you copy formatted text from Apple Mail or Google Docs (both tested), the formatting is preserved when you paste it into a post.
It’s real HTML with <strong> elements, not Unicode symbols pretending to be letters.
A small but welcome improvement for accessibility. Now we just need that bold button.
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