- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:53:21 +0200
- To: wcag <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi, At 12:36 13/09/2007, Christophe Strobbe wrote: >Technique H49 (Using semantic markup to mark emphasized or special >text), which is currently not associated with a success criterion, >contains an example with sub and sup elements. Sub and sup are also >in the test procedures. >However, I just read in a report on accessibility of mathematics and >science that screen readers can't tell the difference between sub >and sup, so a<sup>n</sup> and a<sub>n</sub> are both rendered the >same on a Braille display, namely as "an". >I think we should do some tests for screen reader support (both >Braille and speech), and possibly adapt the user agent and assistive >technology support notes. There is now a test page at <http://tinyurl.com/2qll7h>. Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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