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Re: Highlighting static HTML using the keyboard

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 15, 2018 8:56AM

Depending on how the page is structured, you may be able to do that using
tabindex/role or add ARIA-labelledby or aria-describedby to a link or a
focusable element that calls the information from different divs or P tags.



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Isabel Holdsworth
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 8:55 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Highlighting static HTML using the keyboard

Hi all,

A customer wants us to add speech synthesis to their website. They want to
be able to highlight a block of text on the page that could be anything from
a single character to a whole paragraph, and have it read aloud.

I can't think how to implement this functionality using a keyboard, apart
from making the whole page into a contenteditable div, which would be a big
no-no.

Is there any dyslexia software that offers this type of keyboard navigation?
If so that would give me a starting point at least.

I'd really appreciate any thoughts you can come up with.

Cheers, Isabel
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