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Re: Don't want JAWS to read.

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From: Keith Parks
Date: Apr 21, 2010 12:42PM

On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:49 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>
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> I want to know whether there is any mechanism to prevent JAWS from
> reading a area on the webpage which contains all kind of HTML elements
> like links, headings, input fields, radio buttons and chec boxes.
>

In theory you could designate an aural style sheet, with the "speak"
property for those elements set to "none". I don't know how well these
are supported or implemented in the various screen readers.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/aural.html#speaking-props>;

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San Diego State University
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