#1) We've asked you before.
So you have. My bad. Seem to have filtered it out since it pops up in places where I'm usually mentally filtering for relevance to the issue in question.
#2) I stay away from Italics because they actually make reading more difficult for those of poor sight. This is counterproductive for making sure you can get the most important bits of your message across and if caught without my glasses, your italics are very difficult to see. Caps stand out, generally have thicker, or less visually ambiguous glyphs, and are immediately visually recognizable. I'd use bold, but the editor doesn't seem to support it through any syntactic convention I'm used to.
I consider capitalization to be a way of making sure text stands out, as I've been legally blind for most of my life, and while I'm not as bad anymore, I'm painfully aware of the challenges people with visual impairment face, Therefore, Italics generally take on a less meaningful role in the context of emphasis for me, due to their ability to be more easily mistaken when being looked at. So unless communication is something fairly trivial, or an out-of-band thought, I generally use bolding and capitalization imstead.
By the way, screen readers were not well known for reading out typographical characteristics, so often, a visually impaired person will have to figure out where it LOOKS like emphasis may have been in text. For more don't's to make your content consumable by the visually impaired, have a look at
Section 508 Accessibility Guidelines, it should be trivial enough to Google.
Have a gander at https://www.w3.org/WAI/
And even
https://sw00000004.schoolwires.net/site/handlers/filedownloa...
Or for that matter ANY guide on internet accessibility.
Furthermore, I don't understand why you thinking it's yelling takes anything away from the conventional point of yelling, which is to... provide an auditory form of emphasis via audio signal amplitude modification. The changing of typographical glyphs, draws the eye to content (when said change can be discerned), and primes the mind that Thar be a point to be made here. Perhaps that is my own brand of social ineptitude, nevertheless, I do make a habit of questioning anything that doesn't make sense on functional and aesthetic grounds due to an interest in minimizing overhead in communication and minimizing the number of restrictions on the myriad ways people may attempt to express themselves.
I don't want to derail the thread anymore, and despite this finer point of typography and content rendering in a way which is conducive to the visually impaired being a rather passion invoking topic for me, I assume everyone else is not here for that. I'd prefer not to have too continue, seeing as it breaks yet ANOTHER guideline.
I'd also like to direct your attention to
Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Both points which you (though you are doing it I assume in pursuit of the execution of your your duties to the best of your ability) are straying rather close to.
Instead of providing a reasonable and substantive reply to any of the content in my original comment, you have quibbled over the way it was delivered, detracting from the quality of the conversation despite knowing the typographic convention was being deployed in a way reasonably discernable as conveying emphasis.
So if you are a moderator, consider your message received. I will do my best to abstain from typographic conventions that offend your company's sensibilities to the detriment of my own personal readability without my glasses, and to anyone else's.
Thank you for the link as well. I hadn't noticed the Guidelines on the bottom, again, de-emphasized textual prominence, being a bit of an issue for me.
If you have any ability to escalate feedback, implement bolding and accessibility aids for the love of all the visually impaired.
If you'll excuse me, I'd like to see what I can learn from other's input, I have largely tried to keep comments substantive and on topic.