[uf-discuss] Accessibility and using the abbr element in hCalendar...

[Peter Krantz]

On 5/17/06, Stephen Farrell <sfarrell at almaden.ibm.com> wrote:
> I wonder how doing something like this would inter-operate with
> screenreaders?  Do they walk the DOM after scripts have run?  Or do they
>   parse the HTML themselves?
>

Most screen readers hook into the DOM and can walk it after scripts
have run (and re-walk it if scripts modify it). One of the more
popular screen readers, JAWS, hooks into Internet Explorer's DOM to
provide the user with semantic information about the content.

Regards,

Peter