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

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Jun 18, 2014 6:18AM

Lucy,

Agree.

I just meant that if you have a document that relies on an unusual command
or setting, it might be nice to set up a page that explains the settings in
the popular screen readers. I'm thinking of how the BBC (and other) site
accessibility includes some general help for useful, but less known
settings.


Whitney


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:38 PM, 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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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [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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