[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #30606: Twenty Fifteen: Screen reader text spaces?

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#30606: Twenty Fifteen: Screen reader text spaces?
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 Reporter:  pavelevap      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  4.1
Component:  Bundled Theme  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                 |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by afercia):

 see #30174
 Screen readers read out text reading what's in the DOM, spaces included.
 Ideally, your markup should have spaces and punctuation like you would do
 in your normal writing (or speaking). You wouldn't write:
 > "pageone" "pagetwo" etc.
 of course you would use spaces between words.

 For the same reason there's a hidden comma between links, to let screen
 readers do a little pause.

 Regarding Posted on, Categories, Tags, etc. yes, ideally there should be a
 space there too, but it's a minor issue since they're links so screen
 readers will say "link", for example this is what NVDA reads, copied and
 pasted from NVDA Speech Viewer (the commas are not read out, they're just
 pauses):

  Posted on
  visited  link
  December 5, 2014
  Author
  link
  admin
  Categories
  link
  My first category
  ,
  link
  My second category
  Tags
  link
  my first tag
  ,
  link
  my second tag
  ,
  link
  my third tag

 Not sure about other kind of machines reading that, for example search
 engine crawlers. I guess they will get what you see when you remove
 styles, for example in Firefox: View > Page Style > No Style

  Pages: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
  Posted onDecember 5, 2014AuthoradminCategoriesMy first category, My
 second categoryTagsmy first tag, my second tag, my third tag

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