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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Dec 17, 2012 12:39PM

Wow, what timing! We were having a similar conversion with a client last week.

In traditional print publishing, either a square box (such as ■), the "End of Proof/Halmos" symbol (∎) or 3 hash marks (###) signal the end of the story's content.
Some long-time traditional print publishers still use a square box or Halmos on their websites, but most publishers do not.

Personally, I think it would help AT-users to have some marker that tells them they have reached the end of the main story content on a webpage.
Professionally, it should be the Halmos symbol (ANSI = Alt+8718, Decimal = ∎, and Hexadecimal = ∎) but in our testing, none of the screen readers with default settings interpreted any of these symbols correctly.

(And I wonder, how many of our list members were able to read the characters inserted in this email? They're all Unicode characters.)

If we were to suggest any one symbol to the industry, it would be the Halmos because it is already used by publishers for that purpose.

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