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From: Don Raikes
Date: Dec 23, 2019 2:36PM

I am working on a web tutorial that includes code snippets.

The existing tutorial uses bold text to highlight what code has been added to the snippet. Since a screen reader wouldn't necessarily know that text is bolded, is there a "best practice" for how to indicate changed code in this scenario?



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