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Re: how is list-style-type:none communicated to screen reader?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Oct 30, 2012 12:21PM

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Angela French wrote:

> I want the list item number to link back to the original reference to the footnote. Since I can't apply a hyperlink to the list item number itself, I was thinking of styling it with list-item-style:none, then inserting the number as content into the <li> text.

I think this approach works well. Depending on how it is accessed it
could cause a bit of redundancy, but I'm not sure how else you could
get this functionality. The small amount of potential redundancy would
have less of an impact than simply omitting the list altogether.

Jared