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#1 2013-01-11 12:29:34

phiw13

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From: Japan

Registered: 2004-02-27

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<span role="presentation"> ?

I noticed recently that the recent svn builds use <span role="presentation"> many times on spans wrapped around characters like ‘[’ or ‘]’ (the Articles tab is full of them). As far as I understand the intent of the attribute, it simply removes the semantics associated with a particular HTML element, but leaves the text content of the element exposed to AT.

If the intent is to hide those square brackets from AT, I think aria-hidden="true" would be more appropriate.

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#2 2013-01-16 12:45:21

philwareham

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From: Haslemere, Surrey, UK

Registered: 2009-06-11

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Re: <span role="presentation"> ?

Yeah, I think you’re right there – we want screen readers to ignore those spans so the aria-hidden attribute does seem to be a more logical choice. I’ll amend.

Thanks.

Edit: now done in SVN.