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Re: Screen Readers and HTML comments

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Apr 19, 2005 1:40AM

Screenreaders speak out the rendered code, not the source code, so,
no, comments don't get read out.


On 4/19/05, lisa goostrey < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> Hello,
>>
>> I am just wondering, do screen readers pick up and read out comments
>> embedded in HTML? If so, does the screen reader state that it is a
>> comment in the code, and not page content?
>>
>> regards,
>> Lisa Goostrey
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