Turns the words you type into bold or italic Unicode characters that you can paste into a LinkedIn post, and shows how a screen reader may read them. For people who want to emphasise a word and know what it costs.
How to use it
Style only the words that need it. Read the accessibility note and the screen reader view next to the result before you paste.
- Type the words you want to style, or load the example.
- Choose bold, italic or bold italic.
- Press Format text, or Ctrl/⌘ + Enter, and read the note on how screen readers read the result.
- Copy the formatted text and paste it into your post.
How Reavlo tests this
The text is converted in your browser, one character at a time. Letters A–Z and a–z, and digits 0–9 for bold, move to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block of Unicode (U+1D400 onwards). Italic small h has no place in that block, so Unicode uses PLANCK CONSTANT (U+210E) for it. Italic has no digits, so they stay plain. Everything else, such as spaces, punctuation and letters of other scripts, is left as it was and counted.
These are symbols, not formatting. The converted characters are different characters from the plain ones. A screen reader may read each by its Unicode name or skip it, and a search for the plain word does not match them. The screen reader view lists the first characters of the result with their code points and Unicode names, so you can see what is being read; it is not a recording of any particular screen reader.
Limits. English letters and digits only. The tool cannot tell how LinkedIn or a given device displays the characters; some fonts do not have them. Use styled text for a word or two, never for a whole post or for anything people must be able to find or understand with assistive technology.
Questions
Is my text uploaded?
No. The conversion runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent to a server or stored. If Google Analytics is enabled on this site, it only records that the tool ran, never your text.
Why do screen readers read this badly?
The styled letters are mathematical symbols, not letters with a style. A screen reader can read each one by its Unicode name, such as "mathematical bold capital A", or skip it, so a styled word may be heard as a string of names or not at all.
Will people find my styled words in search?
Not by the plain word. The styled characters are different characters from the letters you would search for, so a search for the plain word does not match them.
Why are some of my characters not styled?
Only English letters A–Z and a–z, and digits for bold, have a styled form. Punctuation, spaces, other alphabets and digits in italic stay as they are, and the result says how many.