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Re: Dot Leaders Should Be Seen, but Not heard

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From: Mark Harcourt
Date: Apr 13, 2021 11:48AM

Thank you for that additional information, Jonathan. I appreciate all of
the answers that have been sent my way.

Cheers.

Mark Harcourt


On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 8:43 AM Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > =================================================> > Jean-Pierre Jamous
> > Principal Digital Accessibility Engineer
> > Jepelsy LLC
> >
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> >
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> >
> >