text-level semantics and the blind?

[Technomage Hawke]

interesting.
I never noticed that before. the items that get </del> don't appear invisible to me. in fact, that attribute seems to be ignored. no wonder some documents get confusing to me. I do have a "text attributes" setting in voiceover that would tell me this, but it amps up the verbosity so much as to make reading standard web pages a mess to filter.


I posted the following to his comments section a few minutes ago:
"I was reading this page using voiceover. some of the text attributes were invisible to me. the <del> element was completely invisible. I didn’t even know that those entries were to be removed from the text.

btw, I am a mac user and use voiceover. color highlights, bold, italics, other enhancements are all invisible to me. the only way I could “see” them is if I turned on “text attributes” which would make an ordinary html/5 document unnecessarily verbose. Since I cannot read braille yet (and have no braille device), I have no clear idea if these same markers would be visible or otherwise in braille.

also, I have no clear idea how other screen access software (jaws, window eyes, thunder, system acces and NVDA) would react to these. more input from the blind community is needed."

-Eric

On Jan 27, 2011, at 2:49 AM, der.hans wrote:

> moin moin,
> 
> http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/html5-and-text-level-semantics/
> 
> How do these get represented in brail, via screen readers, etc.? Do they
> stand out at all? Do they muck up your tools? Are they just ignored?
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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