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Re: Question for screen reader users

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From: Keith Parks
Date: Dec 15, 2009 10:27AM

On Dec 15, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Langum, Michael J wrote:

> 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.

Regardless of what screen readers might or might not "say", depending
on how you are creating your html (assuming we're talking about html
here), the more proper way to get space between paragraphs instead of
inserting an empty paragraph would be to specify the spacing through
CSS.

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