In fiction, the first few words or letters of a chapter are often either capitalized or formatted differently. Make these words consistent with the rest of the text. This may require changing the text to sentence case and re-capitalizing anything that needs to be recapitalized (such as proper names). We do this because some screenreaders read UPPERCASE words as separate letters (i.e. U-P-P-E-R-C-A-S-E) which sounds like an abbreviation and is annoying.

Excerpt of a book where drop caps and capitalization should be changed to sentence case: Drop caps and capitalization

Change capitalization in Word

Q: In the book the Haunting of Room 909, the author frequently capitalizes whole words in dialogue to indicate the speaker is yelling or emphasizing something. I understand that leaving the words capitalized will mean that one letter is read at a time. Should I just make these words lower-case, or use emphasis style, or is there another way I can make them stand out?

A: Just remove the all-capital letters, we do not need to add anything to the text.

Q: There is a name in my text that appears as follows: Richard III. Should I change it to Richard the 3rd?

A: No, TTS is smart and will pronounce it like "Richard the 3rd" :) Most always, we avoid editing the original writing in any way. We can change how the TTS pronounces words by adding specific tags into the code.

Q: I am working on "Until We Are Free" and one of the person's mentioned in the book stylizes their name as "iZrEAL Jones." I understand that this formatting will created problems for screen readers and that the name should be converted to standard capitalization for proper nouns. I am wondering though if there are any special considerations for proper nouns that I should be aware of?

A:You can follow the wiki guidelines for capitalization. The screenreader wont be able to read this name otherwise.

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