RE: simple test of screen reader support for CSS-generated text

Hi Gregory and Aaron,

I'm using Mozilla Firefox/2.0.0.12 and this test appears to work.

--Glo

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Print set in 14 points is a standard size for reading that is commonly
recommended by vision professionals for everyone.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Aaron Leventhal
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:54 PM
To: Gregory J. Rosmaita
Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
Subject: Re: simple test of screen reader support for CSS-generated text


Firefox 2 & 3 currently fail with a screen reader.

At the moment the only generated content we expose to accessibility APIs 
is for list bullet text (e.g. list item numbering).
It's not a simple thing to do :before and :after, and for the moment 
we've deprioritized it until we see an actual use case.

- Aaron

Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
> aloha!
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> i have placed a very simple test of the accessibility of CSS-generated
> content in www-archive -- the simple URI for the attachment is:
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> http://tinyurl.com/2m4h2m
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> explanatory text at:
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> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Nov/0062.html
>
> note that i have posted this to wai-xtech as it pertains to the work
> of several WAI WGs
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> gregory.
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