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Re: Screen reader indications of underlined or strike-through text

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jun 17, 2014 2:11PM


Witch screen reader are your students using
Each one does it a little differently

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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Subject: [WebAIM] Screen reader indications of underlined or
strike-through text

Greetings,

We've come across an interesting issue regarding how screen readers
indicate underlined or strike-through text on a web page. In the context
(legal documentation), this kind of information is vital to the user so
they can tell what text has been removed (strike-through) and what text
has been added (underline). From what we can tell, aside from hard coding
this information into the site, it is our understanding that you can
typically change a setting in your screen reader to have it indicate
"begin underline" and "end underline" at the beginning and end of a
section of underlined (or strike-through) text. Does anyone know if there
are also settings for changing the pitch or volume to indicate such or
would that be too confusing with pitch changes for upper-case and
lower-case letters and words?

Otherwise, does anyone know of any different ways to provide this type of
indication? Any insight or suggestions are welcome!

Thank you!

Dana Douglas

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