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Re: What's The State Of Support For Screen Readers And CSS-generated Content?

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: May 26, 2022 1:53AM

When I looked into this back in 2015, the only browser not to support
exposing content generated using the before/after selectors as part of
the accessible name for links, was IE. Otherwise all browsers on all
platforms with the common screen readers on each platform did.
https://tink.uk/accessibility-support-for-css-generated-content/

Note: the test case linked from that post has disappeared. I'll restore
it as soon as I have a few minutes.

Léonie.


On 26/05/2022 00:51, Bryan Garaventa via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not sure about the best way to keep up with this, but CSS content has been supported now for several years that I am aware of.
>
> This is part of the W3C AccName spec, and it is directly added to the accessibility tree within Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.
>
> This is why screen readers pick it up. Visual ARIA uses this technique to display all discovered ARIA roles and attributes on the page.
>
> All the best,
> Bryan
>
>
> Bryan Garaventa
> Principal Accessibility Architect
> Level Access, Inc.
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> 415.624.2709 (o)
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