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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 11, 2011 12:00PM

Hi

At lesat my set up of Jaws 12 and IE8 inserts a new line before links re read.
So, if I create a link of links and put | between the linka (anchor
tags) Jaws put the | on a new line between each link, except, for some
strange reason, after the first link, where the | actually is on the
same line, but after the link.
For all other links you get a link on a line by it self followed by a
| on the following line.
This is from a document that did not use any paragraphs or any other
tags, just the a tag, the closing a tag and | in between links.
Weird.
Thanks
-Birkir

On 4/11/11, Accessibility India < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Awesome discussion. I'd like to know how screen reader users
> experience the <p> tag. Is it transparent? Does it have semantic
> meaning? Do you expect
> a certain content when you encounter one? I am a sighted user. But
> to me, harkening back to early days of elementary school grammar, a
> paragraph is a
> distinct portion of writing that contains a particular thought or
> idea, and consists of at least one sentence, usually more. If a <p>
> tag has that same
> meaning to a screen reader user, wouldn't a bunch of hyperlinked words
> separated by a pipe be a nonsense sentence?
>
> For a screen reader such as JAWS a blank line is encountered before
> and after the paragraph i.e <p>. Alternately by using the short-cut
> "p" with JAWS you can jump from one para to another. With NVDA you
> cannot find much different with <p> tag. I tried using the short-cut
> "p" on webpage with NVDA but cannot find any any paragraphs.
> So if the user wants to jump from one paragraph to another they can
> use short-cut p. Its not possible <p> tag is used. I recommend to use
> scemantic HTML.
>