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Re: Strike-through Text

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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: Mar 28, 2013 1:53AM

What I meant is that in NVDA, you can change settings so that text marked with <del> is announced es "strikethrough" and text marked up with <ins> is announced as "underline". These announcements express the presentational aspect (that the text is striken out or undelined), not the semantic meaning (that it is was marked as 'deleted' or marked as 'inserted').

I hope it is clearer now!
Best, Detlev


> Dear Mr. Fischer,
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> 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."
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> I couldn't get the idea.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Regards,
> Mohit Verma
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> 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
>> will announce <del> as strikethrough and <ins> as underline. Which I guess
>> 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
>> may otherwise be annoying.
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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
>> make
>> > it difficult for the users with the screen readers.
>> >
>> > 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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