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From: Angela French
Date: Wed, Jun 05 2013 10:47AM
Subject: empty headings perceived?
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Hello,
I have noticed that our page editors (who use Contribute) often leave empty heading tags as they add/delete new things to a page. They have no idea they are doing this of course. Are these perceived by screen readers so as to be a pain in the rear?
The same goes for <p> </p> to create empty space on the page. It is my understanding these are not perceived.
If empty headings are perceived, but paragraphs are not, why is that?
Angela French
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State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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From: Len Burns
Date: Wed, Jun 05 2013 9:44PM
Subject: Re: empty headings perceived?
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Angela,
A quick check indicates that NVDA, Jaws 14 and VoiceOver with Safari on the
Mac ignore empty headings. Window-Eyes 8.1 on the other hand places the
browse mode cursor two lines below the empty tag. As a Window-Eyes user, if
I was not familiar with the behavior I would find it confusing.
Regards,
-Len