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Re: Chrome 80 Bug

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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Mar 16, 2020 9:28AM

or how about <b>*</b>? or a span with a bold style?

Sandy

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On 2020-03-16 11:13 a.m., Swift, Daniel P. wrote:
> I'm a little late to this party - is it possible to include font-weight on the label and completely leave out 'strong'?
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> Dan Swift
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Chrome 80 Bug
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> Max,
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> You are correct. I added role="presentation" to the <strong> and it was read
> by JAWS in Chrome 80. While I don't agree with the role="presentation", as
> it is not proper HTML semantic, at least it does solve the problem for now.
>
> Thank you so much for sharing this.
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