[Wsuug] Updated/new site

Fri Feb 1 11:00:09 EST 2008

I like the idea of hiding the h2 with media type aural, but does it work? As
far as I know, no browser except Opera and Safari even attempts to handle
the aural media type.  And no screen reader except EMACspeak does either.

~ Christopher

On 2/1/08, Joshua McDonald <josh at thisisgrow.com> wrote:
>
> Some do and some don't...I always thought they didn't, then I downloaded a
> trial of one at one time...and it did...i read up on it and it seems that
> some do it, while others don't.
>
> One thing you can do, is hide the abbr (or the h2...whichever) from the
> media type "aural".  That will make screen readers not read them...
>
> As with everything else...there are 50 ways to do this...and 50 opinions
> to go with each of those ways...
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2008 10:19 AM, Andrew Jaswa <ajaswa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 27, 2008 6:31 PM, Andrew Jaswa <ajaswa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > <div id="Header">
> > >                <h1><abbr title="Web Standards and Usability Users
> > Group">WSUUG</abbr></h1>
> > >                <h2>Web Standards and Usability User Group</h2>
> > > </div>
> >
> > When I first wrote this I noticed there is one problem with the above
> > solution. That is that some people/screen readers will read this as
> > "Web Standards and Usability Users Group Web Standards and Usability
> > Users Group". After mulling over this for a little bit more I'd like
> > to propose another solution (which might fix the issue at hand) and
> > get feedback on it.
> >
> > <head>
> > <script>
> > function fixHeader() {
> >        var heading = document.createElement("h2");
> >        var text = document.getElementById("name").title;
> >        document.getElementById("Header").appendChild(heading);
> >        heading.innerHTML = text;
> > }
> > </script>
> > </head>
> > <body onload="fixHeader();">
> >                <div id="Header">
> >                        <h1><abbr id="name" title="Web Standards and
> > Usability Users
> > Group">WSUUG</abbr></h1>
> >                </div>
> > </body>
> >
> > Will generate:
> >
> > <div id="Header">
> >                <h1><abbr id="name" title="Web Standards and Usability
> > Users
> > Group">WSUUG</abbr></h1>
> >                <h2>Web Standards and Usability Users Group</h2>
> > </div>
> >
> > I guess the question then is will screen readers read generated markup
> > and how well do they do it?
> >
> > Andrew
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>
>
>
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