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Re: screen readers and empty paragraphs

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Nov 12, 2008 3:00PM

I agree with Yucca, but I did try a short contrived experiment using
JAWS 9 and IE7.

I found that JAWS would report a "blank" for the first occurrence in a
series of <p>&nbsp;</p>. JAWS completely ignored <p></p>. The
interesting consequence of this was that if two headings were separated
by <p></p> or a series of <p></p> then JAWS would read the headings in a
continuous stream when reading by sentence, alt+down arrow, or
paragraph, cntrl+down arrow. Normal behavior would have been to stop
after each heading. Reading was exactly as expected when reading by
line, word, letter, or in say all mode.

Mike