Re: what do screen readers do with "the padlock"?

mine says "lock icon"
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Bob

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Al Gilman wrote:

>
>
> Browsers comonly use a padlock icon to indicate that content has been
> obtained by a secure connection.  For example,
>
> <quote
> cite="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lock_icon">
>
> The lock icon in the Status Bar and the Location Bar of your browser
> indicates that the current web page uses encryption mechanisms for
> securing the connection in order to prevent malicious Internet users
> from reading and modifying the exchanged data between your web
> browser and the web server.
>
> </quote>
>
> Do some screen readers or self-voicing browsers inform the user of
> this security status distinction?  Do they generally?  How?
>
> Al
>

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