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Re: how to get screen reader to announce single letters as Ceefor C?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 13, 2015 6:32AM

> I don't think that it is really a problem because screen reading software can be used to read one letter at a time.

I think the challenge here is that the text (a letter) is being announced with an ARIA live region and thus the virtual or browse mode cursor is not in the correct location to review the letter that was announced. Some screen readers have history review modes which might help but that would likely be too advanced for many users. It's too bad CSS speech properties have not been uniformly adopted.

Jonathan

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] how to get screen reader to announce single letters as Cee for C?

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:19:38PM +0000, Moore,Michael (DARS) wrote:
> I don't think that it is really a problem because screen reading software can be used to read one letter at a time. For NVDA, JAWS and if I remember correctly WindowEyes the left and right arrow keys read one letter at a time.

Orca too.
_mallory