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Re: Hiding presntational text from a screen reader

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Mar 27, 2012 12:15PM

Alistair Duggin wrote:
"I was thinking that it may be unnecessary aural clutter for a screen reader
users. A sighted user needs to be able to associate the text with one of the
two images on the page whereas I was thinking a screen reader user wouldn't
need to.=A0 Thinking about it further though it could be helpful to a sight=
ed
screen reader user."

If the information is there, a screen reader user doesn't have to
listen to it. If it isn't there, there is no choice but to miss out. I
blogged about screen readers, text descriptions and emotion rich images a
while back. Here in case it's helpful:
http://tink.co.uk/2011/06/text-descriptions-emotion-rich-images/ =



L=E9onie.