Maybe I’m late to the party, but I just discovered that VoiceOver has an option to turn off the speaking of emoji, and the activities feature lets me apply it to certain contexts. This makes browsing my timelines so much easier!!!
Like this:
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Oh wow, cool. I didn’t know this either.
I knew about activities, but not the other part of it. I set it specifically for social media, so messages still come through normally.