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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 6:28PM

I tried using aria-describedby on them, but none of it was read because the
elements don't have any special roles, and thus are not focused. I'd be
concerned about putting "hidden text" in there because while it might
prevent confusion for screen readers, you'd have to be very careful that
the content was never printed or output visually. I'd be more concerned
about that level of confusion than confusion for screen readers.

Cheers,

Sean


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:22 AM, David Ashleydale < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
> > > Follow me on twitter @accessaces
> > >
> > >
> > >