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From: Laurence Lewis
Date: May 26, 2023 12:32PM

Hi

I suggest it would be better to use a <caption> and not heading markup. The
caption can be styled the same as a large bold heading.
When a screen reader user navigates by table the caption is announced. If
headings, each table is announced as a table without a meaningful name.

Laurence Lewis
Accessibility Senior Specialist - Telstra, Brisbane Australia

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> I agree with Glen that a Unicode symbol would be a clever idea to use:
> 1. You save a lot of work around to provide a text alternative for an
> image or a font awesome icon etc. JAWS and NVDA interpret Unicode symbols
> quite reliable. Just the texting does not always fit perfectly.
> 2. A screen reader provides the interpretation of a Unicode symbol in the
> default language. Helpful for pages in a foreign language beyond any SC.
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> I’d propose 🗎 (1F5CE) to indicate documents. They are not clipboards,
> although the icon looks alike.
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> And I am not sure whether CSS is the correct approach. Once I learned that
> CSS should not be used to provide information for SR:
> .folder:before { content: '1f4c1'; }
> <li style="list-style-type: '1f4c1'";'">
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