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Re: Question for screen reader users

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From: Don Mauck
Date: Dec 15, 2009 10:18AM

That's ridiculous!!! They might say something like "blank," but so what? That sounds like some specific screen reading person being too picky and/or not knowing how to use the screen reader well enough to make that go away. This is a waste of your time and is not needed at all.

-----Original Message-----
From: Langum, Michael J [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:07 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Question for screen reader users

We've been requested to remove all the carriage returns (that is, when you hit the Enter key to insert a blank line between paragraphs) because (they allege ) screen readers will say them aloud.

I've never heard of this. Can anyone confirm or deny?

-- Mike Langum
Asst. Webmaster, WWW.OPM.GOV
U.S. Office of Personnel Management