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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Sep 25, 2017 4:03PM

I have a couple of questions from our developer that I could not answer.
Any thoughts?


- Quotes:

We have a large, stylized quotation mark to signal a pull quote on some
pages. At the moment we have it marked up as a quotation in the code. Our
developer asks, "
would it be equally acceptable to include the curly quote (“) in the
HTML and style that with CSS?"


- In our menus (left nav, top menu, and hamburger menu) on one of our
sites, VO is reading "1 item" for each menu, because it considers each 1
list of X number of items. On other sites, it reads the number of items in
the "list" instead. I would think the latter is more helpful, as the user
will want to know how many items s/he will be encountering. I've also heard
that the menu must be marked as a list. How would we go about both marking
it as a list and having VO say the number of items in the list? Our
developer is able to do one or the other. Also, is this the approach you
could recommend or do you have alternatives?


Thanks!
Sarah