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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 5:38PM

Yes I agree but the keyboard commands for how to do the same things differ
in each screen reader. I was not saying it was good that they are
different but can't help tell them by telling them how to do it in one
when they are using the other smile.

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Whitney
Quesenbery
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:36 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader indications of underlined or
strike-through text

This is legal document markup? Hideous stuff for anyone to read.

Could someone who is more of a Word maven write a script or macro to turn
word Underline and Strikeover into <del> and <ins>?

I ask because it's my bet that the HTML is straight from a Word document,
and if you can't make the transformation accurately repeatable, you won't
be able to use it because it will add to the process of vetting the
markup.


To Lucy: standards, standards, standards. This doesn't sound like
something that should be tailored for a specific brand of screen reader.
But I'd be tempted to include a "how to" note to tell sr users how to set
up their AT instead.

Whitney


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dana
> Douglas
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:03 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 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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