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

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From: Sean Curtis
Date: Jun 17, 2014 6:00PM

I've just done some testing and the results are a little depressing. The
HTML I tested was:

<p>Accessibility is really <del>hard</del><ins>easy</ins>.</p>

Results:

- VoiceOver in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox: the text was read, but no
special inflection was made to differentiate them.
- NVDA (2014.1) in IE/Firefox/Chrome: the same as VoiceOver
- JAWS 15 in IE/Firefox/Chrome: as above, however there's a special
reading mode which did add inflection to them (see
http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2008/02/screen-readers-lack-emphasis/)

My recommendation is to use the <del> and <ins> elements and raise bugs
with each of the relevant screen readers.

Cheers,

Sean


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
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