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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Sep 3, 2014 6:23PM

Oh, thank you, Sean! I feel a bit thick, now. :)

Out of curiosity, does any assitive tech do anything useful with <mark>?

Deborah Kaplan


On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Sean Curtis wrote:

> 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
>> >> >> >>
> > > >
>

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