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Re: no paragraphs in divs

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 27, 2015 7:54AM

> I've noticed NVDA will treat text that is broken into multiple lines is treated as separate lines. Which kinda sucks when you have something like a button where the text wrapped to two lines; sometimes it sounds like two separate links/buttons when it's in fact one.

This can happen with JAWS to for links and headings when they become very long. But I suspect NVDA is more prone to this because it puts text and interactive controls on the same line until there is a block level element like a div or paragraph to break the content. I like how JAWS separate out interactive controls on separates lines with the arrow keys. While this may not be semantically accurate it is much easier to hear, select, and interact with the control.

Jonathan

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