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Re: table of contents - leader dots best practice

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From: Laura Roberts
Date: Oct 4, 2022 2:34PM

Thanks. I've been artifacting them, but was perusing the PDF/UA syntax
guide and it gave an example where the leader wasn't artifacted. I usually
only test with JAWS so thanks for letting me know how other screen readers
are reading leaders.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 2:12 PM Karen McCall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Yes. They are visually there for people to follow along the line from the
> topic to the correct page number, but those of us who use screen readers or
> Text-to-Speech tools don't need to hear them.
>
> Some screen readers will only read the first three dots so you know they
> are there, while others read all of them which can be annoying. Same with
> some Text-to-Speech tools.
>
> Making them Artifacts supports visual access and access for those of us
> using adaptive technology.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
>