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Comment LC-1079: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Gian Sampson-Wild <gian@tkh.com.au>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Example 1 - "A form that uses colour and an asteriskâ€¦": Research has shown that screen readers differ in their approach to asterisks - some do not read them out at all.

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Remove this example, and provide additional examples, such as using the word "required" instead of an asterisk (I am happy to write these); Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMC] I did not find significant research to back up this claim. I tested in HPR 3.04, JAWS 7.10 (beta) and Window-Eyes 5.5. Of the three, WE does not speak the asterisk by default, you must turn on Math Puncuation from the screen menu. But, I know that Makoto mentioned this issue for Japanese screen readers so we included an example of using an image in HTM 1.3.2 I suggest that we include that example in HTM 1.3.1 as well. @@ action to include that example from HTM 1.3.2,A form that uses color and text to indicate required fields," in HTM 1.3.1. Discussed in the 27 July 2006 telecon: resolution: accept LC-1079 as ammended with G14 and G122 examples http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/07/27-wai-wcag-minutes.html {partial-accept} DONE update existing example about asterisk to match G14 ex4 DONE action to include that example from HTM 1.3.2,A form that uses color and text to indicate required fields," in HTM 1.3.1. *** add http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#G122 BBC: The above action was unclear, but in discussing with Michael, it seems that the recommendation here was to pull the example from G122 and include it in examples for 1.3.1. However, since we already had an example about a form that uses color and text to indicate required fields, the example was not repeated. Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jul/0010.html; Resolution: The Working Group tested three screen readers for support of the asterisk character. Two of three spoke the asterisk character using the default settings. In one screen reader the default settings had to be modified in order for the asterisk character to be spoken. The group feels that this level of support for the asterisk character is sufficient to include the example. However, we understand that screen readers in languages other than English my have difficulty speaking single characters so we have also included the example from How to Meet 1.3.2 , A form that uses color and text to indicate required fields, in the How to Meet document for 1.3.1.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)