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From: Chris Hoffman
Date: Jan 22, 2009 9:10PM

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Dean Hamack < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Excellent. That's what I wanted to hear. That means developers can add all
> those fancy characters with CSS, rather than including them in the code. But
> as usual, the only problem is Internet Explorer.

Hi Dean,

My fear with this approach would be that shortly after IE starts
supporting CSS content, JAWS and other screenreaders will follow suit,
and we'd be back in the same boat. Maybe even sooner, since the JAWS
10 docs seem to make quite a big deal about its compatibility with
Firefox 3.

--Chris