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From: Keith Parks
Date: Dec 13, 2012 2:17PM

On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Julius Charles Serrano wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> What are your thoughts on text content displayed vertically in web
> pages? These are blocks of text which, when read using a screen reader
> (using the down arrow key) would sound like:
>
> "A
> C
> C
> E
> S
> S"


Seems like you could accomplish the vertically-stacked display through CSS applied to a regular string of text, which would read normally through a screen reader. Thus no down-arrow necessary.

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