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Re: Screen reader question

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From: Steve Green
Date: Dec 12, 2007 4:10PM

Is this text displayed on screen or is it hidden (off-screen perhaps) so
that only screen readers see it? I ask because you may get different results
if you use different capitalisation or use words instead of numbers.

There's no chance you will get it to read the same in all screen readers
regardless of vendor or version. They all make assumptions based on
heuristics but they don't make the same assumptions. Professional products
like JAWS tend to apply more 'intelligence' but cheap and free products tend
not to.

Steve