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Re: Hiding presntational text from a screen reader

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Mar 27, 2012 7:59AM

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:34 AM, ALISTAIR DUGGIN
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Should I try and hide the 'Left:' and 'Right:' text from screen readers by using aria-hidden="true" or is this unnecessary?

I'd think that if you expect this content to be read and useful to any
users, then it's not really presentational at all and should not be
hidden.

Jared