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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Sep 3, 2014 6:10PM

Hi folks,

I'm doing accessibility assessments of a site where the results of a search return a page with all instances of the search time highlighted. Sometimes, there can be many instances of the search term on the returned page, so to sighted users, the highlighted term appears as a smattering of yellow all over the page.

What's best practice on displaying the results for non-visual displays? Does the possibly high-frequency of the search term make it too noisy to provide highlight information? Or if it should be indicated just as it is for sighted users, what's the best way to indicate the text is highlighted?

Thanks,

Deborah Kaplan