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Re: evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0 (Angela French)

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Apr 13, 2011 10:03AM

At 08:24 AM 4/13/2011, Angela French wrote:
>That's funny. What do screen readers read in breadcrumbs if the
>developers uses a > sign between links?
It's in the category of symbols that really depend on screen reader &
speech dictionary settings (e.g., the difference between a setting
for "Most" or "Some" punctuation to be verbalized).

I usually set > not to be spoken, to make reading emails with lots of
replies easier. Of course clever people could set the speech program
to behave differently in different applications. (I also use a
braille display most of the time, so having the >'s not spoken isn't
a hardship.)

The l separator is awesome...

Patrick

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