- From: Paul Waring <pwaring@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:07:52 +0000
On 17/03/2008, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals at opera.com> wrote: > Bad assumption - they don't read it out. They read what is put on the > screen. (Well, sort of - what they actually do is parse the DOM themselves > quite often, as well). One reason for this is that a lot of authors put > stuff there "for screen reader users" that just adds to the clutter on > their page - an easy mistake if you're not used to what screen readers are > actually like to work with. Ah, it would appear that screen readers have got a bit more advanced since the last time I looked into them (which admittedly was some time ago) - back then I think many of them still read out 'hidden' text. > In my ideal world, people would actually implement the aural style, but I > think we are the biggest implementation of that and we only do it on > windows for the voice plugin :( If there is already something which does this then, is there really a need for a <noview> element? Paul -- Paul Waring http://www.pwaring.com
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