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Re: Use of characters as separators/arrows, etc.

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Apr 3, 2006 10:40AM

> There is a good artcile explaining how these will be read out in
> screenreaders - could you image 'right double angle bracket' every
> time you come across it.
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/?2004/11/06/6-the-sound-of-the-accessible-title-tag-separator
>

My favourite are people using text for their visual appearance,
especially in the page title. A
" ::: what we are" is read as colon colon colon what we are and in
this case really spot-on.