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Re: Best practices showing revisions (strikethroughs, etc.)

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From: Wyant, Jay (MNIT)
Date: Jan 9, 2014 8:09AM

To make sure I am clear:

- Both <del> or <s> are acceptable tags for strikethrough- the key is to alert the screenreader user to set to a proofreading scheme (in JAWS by pressing alt-insert-s). Otherwise the screen reader will simply ignore all text within those tags.

- However, the solution will not address iOS systems using Voiceover, which does not provide a proofreading mode. Users relying on Voiceover will not be able to distinguish the strikethrough text.

- Would an alternative, such as this strikethrough code I found on Karl Groves' site work for all environments?: <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">

Thoughts?

Jay