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

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From: SaravanaMoorthy.P@cognizant.com
Date: Jan 9, 2014 11:17PM

Similar issue we faced where the actual price amount is stricken out(when there are some offers on particular product) and we used the traditional offscreen text
<div>
<span style="text-decoration: line-through ">$5.00 <span class="audioText">Priced stricked out</span></span>
</div>
Here the class auidoText contains the offscreen css properties.

This will be read in all screen readers and users are informed about the stricken amount.

Regards,
Saran.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott González [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 8:52 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Best practices showing revisions (strikethroughs, etc.)

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Wyant, Jay (MNIT) < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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.
>

<del> is the semantically correct element; use it over <s>.


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

This is worse than <del> or <s> as it holds no semantic meaning.

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