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From: Don Mauck
Date: Aug 19, 2013 1:33PM

The "same page" message is something the user can change in the verbosity settings for JAWS, hope that clarifies for you.

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From: Rakesh [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 11:26 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Screen reader announcements

Hi all,

I want to know your opinion on screen reader announcements. For example for a skip link we provide href="#id" which leads to announcement as "Same page link" with JAWS while NVDA announces it as general link and Voiceover as inpage link. It also happens with symbols such as *.

Being a screen reader user it is fine for me unless it changes the meaning, but want to know experts opinion as well.

Thanks & Regards
Rakesh