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Re: hide decorative characters from screen readers

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From: John Foliot
Date: Aug 12, 2011 1:00PM

Yves Serrano wrote:
>
> 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).

Yes, I agree that screen readers (NVDA has the same behavior) shouldn't
real aloud :before or :after pseudo-selector characters. We have a
precedent here in that you cannot copy and paste those same characters
from the browser screen (they are treated like background images) and
screen readers should treat them the same way as well, IMHO.

Anyone disagree, and if so why (please)?

JF