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

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From: Liko, Todd
Date: Jun 18, 2014 3:58AM


We have technical standards documents that contain underline and striketrhough which have been converted to PDF, which is how the users of these documents consume them. Although a very tedious process, we have user <span> tags with alternative text to indicate underline and strikethrough.

Todd.

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steve Faulkner
Sent: June 18, 2014 1:56 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader indications of underlined or strike-through text

On 18 June 2014 01:46, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The solution is for screen readers to get their act together and
> support this basic markup. It's maddening that screen readers still
> don't support basic, two-decade-old HTML like <strong> and <em>.
>

whilst I agree its a hack, it may be a necessary one for legal documents at this time. Its also not only screen readers who need to get their act together, its browsers that need to convey the semantics of the HTML features via accessibility APIs, which in most instances for text level semantics they do not.



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Regards

SteveF
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