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Re: how to get screen reader to announce single letters as Ceefor C?

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From: _mallory
Date: May 13, 2015 7:10AM

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:32:59PM +0000, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> I think the challenge here is that the text (a letter) is being announced with an ARIA live region and thus the virtual or browse mode cursor is not in the correct location to review the letter that was announced. Some screen readers have history review modes which might help but that would likely be too advanced for many users. It's too bad CSS speech properties have not been uniformly adopted.

I thought with live regions you can state whether it's atomic or only
announce new stuff?

_mallory