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From: Keith Parks
Date: Aug 12, 2011 5:39PM

On Aug 12, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Chris Hoffman wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.

So it would be a better practice to use CSS to add a visual separator (vertical line) rather than use CSS to add the vertical bar character?

Is that the take-away from this?

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