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Re: Numbered prose.

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Feb 25, 2017 6:30PM


A < ol> would get annoying and perhaps confusing to some. I am assuming the
exact line is needed due to it being legal documentation. I have seen
<pre>s used or a combination of p/spans.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I second the <ol> structure (or just a bunch of paragraph starting
> with the number, if that is how it is implemented right now).
> <dl> wouldn't help, I think it would just confuse the situation, for
> one thing screen readers generally treat <dl> like <ul>
>
> This could be a use case for the aria-flowto attribute or the ARIA 1.1
> aria-details attribute, but the problem is that there is hardly any
> screen reader support for either (some aria-flowto support in Jaws
> with Firefox, and I think in Narrator, out of all screen readers).
>
>
>
>
> On 2/25/17, Beranek, Nicholas < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > I'd use an OL. It feels like an ordered list.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent with Good (www.good.com)
> > > > From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of
> > Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 11:12:27 AM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List
> > Subject: [WebAIM] Numbered prose.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have recently encountered a design pattern at my office that I don't
> think
> > we are presenting in the best way.
> >
> > Essentially it is a set of paragraphs where each sentence or paragraph is
> > numbered. The idea being that later in the page there will be questions
> like
> > what is the significance of the word "happy" in phrase 19?
> >
> > Does it make sense to use a DL block for this structure? I am thinking
> that
> > perhaps for screen readers we could tag the DT as hidden and then use
> > aria-describedby to reference the phrase number.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jonathan Cohn
> >
> >
> >
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