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Re: Dot Leaders Should Be Seen, but Not heard

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From: jeffgutsell
Date: Apr 14, 2021 10:37AM

-----There are some UTF-8 characters that may work.
I tried testing the dot leader character and JAWS does not speak it.
I inserted it in a test page with the decimal notation as "․"
You can look up other characters in the typographical section of UTF-8 at: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_punctuation.asp
Of course, your web page must be created with UTF-8 encoding.

Jeff Gutsell

From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of JP Jamous
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Dot Leaders Should Be Seen, but Not heard

Mark,

Why did you choose to use a role attribute on the span? role="dot-leaders"

1. This is not necessary and violates one of the 2 main principles of ARIA. The role here serves no purpose, because you hid the span from assistive technologies. Automated tools such as Axe or Wave, might call that as a warning, because you are hijacking the span element.
2. The role attribute has specific values that it uses. "dot-leaders" is not one of them that I am aware of. If you are using this as a CSS class, then you are implementing the role value incorrectly.

Those are the only concerns I have noticed by reading quickly through your markup.





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