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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Dec 15, 2009 10:24AM

"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 don't recall having seen behaviour like this with any of the popular screen readers. Certainly not on a web page at least. I believe it's possible to configure MS Word to display characters such as carriage returns, but that's nothing to do with how a screen reader interprets the page.

Screen readers will report blank lines on a page. Perhaps this is what they mean? That's usually a legitimate piece of information though, caused by using <p>...</p> in the standard way.


Regards,
Léonie.

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