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From: Sean Curtis
Date: Sep 3, 2014 6:16PM

Hi Deborah,

There's actually an HTML element specifically for handling this: <mark>

More info:

- http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/mark
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/mark
-
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-mark-element

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Sean Curtis


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:10 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > >