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Re: hide decorative characters from screen readers

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From: Chris Hoffman
Date: Aug 12, 2011 5:30PM

On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Keith Parks < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Huh?
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> Can you put that in *plain* English?
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> (Yes, I realize a lot of talk on this list is by nature fairly technical, but that one went right over my head.)

Mine, too, so I had to go to the link for context. This section of the ARIA spec is talking about how to determine alternative text for elements. Rule 2C says to calculate the alternative text by concatenating the text values of an element’s children, and this (confusingly written) note says that CSS-generated text content should be added into the mix. In other words, JAWS and NVDA are following the letter of the law, so to speak.

Chris