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Yes, Unicode characters might look interesting and stand out visually. But they are inaccessible to screen reader users. Screen readers may skip them entirely or read something irrelevant to the user.
- Can a screen reader read italics?
- Do screen readers pick up bold?
- How do screen readers read bold text?
- Can screen readers read special characters?
Can a screen reader read italics?
Whether you call them italics and bold or <em> and <strong> , we're talking about emphasis and the HTML used to communicate it.
Do screen readers pick up bold?
Like font color, size and highlights, bold and italic text are not usually communicated to screen reader users.
How do screen readers read bold text?
One way of conveying bold or italic text to screen reader users is to add a visually hidden text prefix and suffix, denoting the beginning and end of the emphasised text.
Can screen readers read special characters?
You can use such punctuation as periods, commas, semi-colons, colons, parentheses, brackets, quotation marks, dashes, exclamation points, question marks and some others. JAWS is the most likely of the screen readers to read these kinds of punctuation marks. NVDA is the least likely.
