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Re: Strike-through Text

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From: Mohit Rajan Verma
Date: Mar 28, 2013 3:25AM

Thanks Mr. Fischer, it is very much clear now.

Regards,
Mohit Verma

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Detlev Fischer < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> What I meant is that in NVDA, you can change settings so that text marked
> with <del> is announced es "strikethrough" and text marked up with <ins> is
> announced as "underline". These announcements express the presentational
> aspect (that the text is striken out or undelined), not the semantic
> meaning (that it is was marked as 'deleted' or marked as 'inserted').
>
> I hope it is clearer now!
> Best, Detlev
>
>
> > Dear Mr. Fischer,
> >
> > Can you please help me to understand what do you exactly mean by
> > "here, you can make it annonce <del> and <ins> but not semantically,
> just
> > presentationally."
> >
> > I couldn't get the idea.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mohit Verma
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Detlev Fischer <
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Just checked NVDA. here, you can make it annonce <del> and <ins> but
> not
> >> semantically, just presentationally.
> >> Checking "Report font attributes" in Preferences / Document formatting,
> it
> >> will announce <del> as strikethrough and <ins> as underline. Which I
> guess
> >> is better than nothing as you will often know that you are going to
> look at
> >> a document with changes, and can explicitly turn on an output option
> that
> >> may otherwise be annoying.
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> >> under <strikethrough>
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> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >> Date: 28.03.2013 03:21:12
> >> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Strike-through Text
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi Georg,
> >> >
> >> > As I know, Screen Reader doesn't announce these tags and that's why it
> >> make
> >> > it difficult for the users with the screen readers.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Mohit Verma
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Georg < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Would <del> and <ins> work - be announced? In many (most ?) cases
> that's
> >> >> the intended meaning anyway.
> >> >>
> >> >> regards
> >> >> Georg
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