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Re: Pipe characters and screen readers (form field redux)

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Dec 5, 2008 12:00PM

Remember that people using TTS who have learning or cognitive disabilities
also use auditory feedback for form controls. And that some natural phoneme
synthesizer have problems with "symbols" and often just ignore them.

"Star" may not be as obvious whereas there would be no doubt with the word
"required.".

I use a screen reader and personally prefer the word required in a field
because I then know I haven't read things too quickly. I also seldom read an
entire form so having "required" in the form control itself saves me time.

I think we have to remember that it is not only for screen readers that we
are doing this.

Cheers, Karen