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From: Yves Serrano
Date: Aug 12, 2011 2:36AM

Hi

Often you have a character as navigation separator in horizontal navigation list.
I use for example "-" or "|". The screen readers reads this characters even if I build them with pseudo css content (JAWS).
I could use images as <li> background, but then I lose the ability of scaling via css, by changing the font size.
It also matches the text better if I don't use an image.

We can hide decorative images with the empty alt attribute from the screen reader is there a solution for
decorative characters?

Don't found anything. Am I the only one who does it find unpleasing when the screen reader reads them?

regards yves