Re: Strikethrough

The del element is correct HTML for dong this - applying a strikethrough
style to something else is risky and contravenes a WCAG priority 1
checkpoint. (So the question becomes whether there should be a specific note
that some screenreaders will not give a correct presentation of the
document).

Many browsers do implement ins and del - Lynx inserts a word at each end, and
most visual represenations I have seen use strikethrough.

cheers

Chaals

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Marja-Riitta Koivunen wrote:

  What about <del> (and <ins> for insertions) tag in html? Would that work?
  Then it would be possible to use CSS to present the del as strikethrough.

  Marja

  At 02:54 PM 5/22/2002 +0100, Julie.Howell@rnib.org.uk wrote:
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  >are no longer valid.  However, some screenreaders are unable to interpret
  >strikethrough correctly.
  >
  >Can anyone suggest an effective solution?  I was wondering about the acronym
  >tag... should this be used to support the strikethrough text so that
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