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Re: highlighting code changes on an html page

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 23, 2019 2:47PM

How complicated is it?
Does the new code come in blocks or are there attributes that have
been added or changed and are visually highlighted as such?
If you can always separate the new code out by blocks you can use
role="region" and aria-label="added code" as one option for a screen
reader.
If the changes are smaller than that, i.e. changes to individual
attributes, you have to get awfully creative (because screen readers
have awfully poor support for text level semantics).


On 12/23/19, Don Raikes < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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