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Re: Dot Leaders Should Be Seen, but Not heard

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Apr 13, 2021 6:43AM

TO add to this, to the best of my knowledge only VoiceOver and then only in a limited fashion implemented the voice attributes in CSS.
Jonathan

Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn



> On Apr 12, 2021, at 14:56, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> You can use a span with aria-hidden="true" that holds the leaders, which would fall within the parent span. Example:
> <span>
> Chapter 1
> <span aria-hidden="true">
> ------------------------------
> </span>
> Page 5
> </span>
> Screen readers would only read "Chapter 1, Page 5"
>
>
>
>
>
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