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

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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Jun 17, 2014 6:22PM

For something that completely unsupported, wouldn't the recommendation be
to shore it up with some hidden text? Especially for legal documents. A
misunderstand of what has been crossed could be critical.

David

On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, Sean Curtis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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>
> <javascript:;>> 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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> >
> >
> >