Patrick Lauke wrote:
Tested with JAWS 4.02, and yes, it reads it as "search". That's not to say, though, that all screenreaders behave this way... Let me guess...underlines for accesskeys ?
That's the fella
One thing that worries me about doing those sorts of things is that the result is very...non semantic. Not sure how, say, search engines would react to seeing Words broken up like that. Would they still index the word itself, or would they see an "S" and "earch"? (sure, in this case it doesn't make a difference, but I'm thinking in more general terms, e.g. headings using an image as an ornate initial or something - search engines would presumably not recognise the designer's intention - why should they? - and not see the word as a whole).
Patrick
I agree with you. It's not the nicest way of doing this. I think using the :first-letter pseudo-element selector would probably be a better bet.
Andy Budd
http://www.message.uk.com/
*****************************************************
The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
for some hints on posting to the list & getting help
*****************************************************
