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From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Sat, May 30 2015 3:42PM
Subject: How to indicate <strike> text
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Sorry if this has been discussed here before:

My developers recently asked about <strike>/<s> text, as used to reflect changes in evolving documents. I tested a few JAWS and NVDA on a few different browsers, but the stri fcken text was always vocalized by the AT.

Any good suggestions on how best to indicate that a span of text has been removed, and that another span of text is its replacement?

Example:

<p>The project will be overseen by <strike>IT Services</strike> the Applications group.</p>

Thanks,
Todd

T.M. Weissenberger
Web Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology Services
University of Iowa

319-384-3323

From: Sean Curtis
Date: Sat, May 30 2015 4:40PM
Subject: Re: How to indicate <strike> text
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Hi Todd,

The <strike> element has been deprecated in favour of a <del> element for removed text, or a span one if the line-through is purely presentational. See this MDN page for more info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/strike

As for getting AT to read <ins> and <del> elements well, I know Paul J Adam has done lots of testing for this, and has a great page on his blog explaining his findings: http://pauljadam.com/demos/css-line-through-del-ins-accessibility.html

Cheers,

Sean

> On 31 May 2015, at 7:42 am, Weissenberger, Todd M < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Sorry if this has been discussed here before:
>
> My developers recently asked about <strike>/<s> text, as used to reflect changes in evolving documents. I tested a few JAWS and NVDA on a few different browsers, but the stri fcken text was always vocalized by the AT.
>
> Any good suggestions on how best to indicate that a span of text has been removed, and that another span of text is its replacement?
>
> Example:
>
> <p>The project will be overseen by <strike>IT Services</strike> the Applications group.</p>
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
> T.M. Weissenberger
> Web Accessibility Coordinator
> Information Technology Services
> University of Iowa
>
> 319-384-3323
> > > >

From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Sun, May 31 2015 1:10PM
Subject: Re: How to indicate <strike> text
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Sean, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out right away.

Todd

From: Dana Douglas
Date: Mon, Jun 01 2015 12:09PM
Subject: Re: How to indicate <strike> text
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Todd,

I asked a similar question to the list about a year ago. Here's a link to the thread in case you find any of that information useful (I know I did): http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?threadd66.

Good luck!

Dana

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Dana Douglas
User Experience Specialist
UserWorks, Inc.
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