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Re: Quick Poll for JAWs users: Verbosity and Punctuation settings.

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Aug 13, 2012 12:39PM

John,
Verbosity and punctuation are user preferences and should not be a
concern. Users may set different preferences from time to time or from
application to application or from task to task.
And some do not like to change them.
What is important is that visible text and off-screen text should not
run together / appear concatenated for AT users.
One should use space / hyphens / parenthesis as one would use them
normally to serve as separators.
Rightho,
Sailesh


On 7/29/12, Adam Cooper < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi John,
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> Settings below:
> Verbosity - advanced
> Punctuation - most
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> And in answer to your question: you should not bother using off-screen
> text.
> It is arguable that it doesn't meet 1.3.1 and screen reader users are not
> the only people with disabilities who are going to be viewing the page nor
> the only type of assistive technology used.
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> Cheers,
> Adam
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