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Re: Strike-through Text

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From: Mohit Rajan Verma
Date: Mar 28, 2013 1:36AM

Dear Mr. Fischer,

Can you please help me to understand what do you exactly mean by
"here, you can make it annonce <del> and <ins> but not semantically, just
presentationally."

I couldn't get the idea.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Mohit Verma

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Detlev Fischer < <EMAIL REMOVED>
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> Just checked NVDA. here, you can make it annonce <del> and <ins> but not
> semantically, just presentationally.
> Checking "Report font attributes" in Preferences / Document formatting, it
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> is better than nothing as you will often know that you are going to look at
> a document with changes, and can explicitly turn on an output option that
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Date: 28.03.2013 03:21:12
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Strike-through Text
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> > Hi Georg,
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> > As I know, Screen Reader doesn't announce these tags and that's why it
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> > it difficult for the users with the screen readers.
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> > Regards,
> > Mohit Verma
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> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Georg < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> >> Would <del> and <ins> work - be announced? In many (most ?) cases that's
> >> the intended meaning anyway.
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> >> regards
> >> Georg
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