- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:50:04 -0500
- To: Lois Wakeman <lois@lois.co.uk>, WAI list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
They are not even noticed by jaws 4.50. I marked up the strings you
gave below and when the page was loaded with just those strings, it
appeared as though there was noting coded into the page.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lois Wakeman" <lois@lois.co.uk>
To: "WAI list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:09 AM
Subject: How do screen readers treat empty paragraphs please?
I am trying to educate someone for whom I designed accessible web
templates
to produce clean and tidy code. However, he wishes to use multiple
empty
paragraphs with non-breaking spaces to mess up my nice style sheets with
uneven spacing. My question is sort of related: if a screen reader comes
across code like this:
<.p> </p>
<.p> </p>
<.p> </p>
<.p><.br>
<.br>
</p>
<.p> </p>
(horrible, isn't it?) -- will this cause annoyance to the reader, or
just be
ignored completely? If the latter, I shall have to bite my tongue and
keep
quiet, I guess.
Lois Wakeman
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