Comments on: The Sound of the Accessible Title Text Separator

By: Stray Dog Strut » Blog Archive » Where’s the door handle?

Stray Dog Strut » Blog Archive » Where’s the door handle? — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:15:45 +0000

[...] a screen reader encounters these bullet points? Standards Schmandards has a very helpful article on accessible title separators (you know, the symbols commonly found between the blog title and subtitle) that also applies to [...]

By: Aksesibilitas Karakter Pemisah Judul Tulisan Blog - Dani Iswara .Net

Aksesibilitas Karakter Pemisah Judul Tulisan Blog - Dani Iswara .Net — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:12:56 +0000

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By: Tilgjengelig tittelstruktur - bza.no

Tilgjengelig tittelstruktur - bza.no — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:48:41 +0000

[...] elementene i tittelen er litt estetikk og personlige preferanser. Det man kan tenke over er hvordan tegnet man separerer elementene med hørers ut. Min bindestrek vil uttales som “em dash”, noe som jeg mener kan forsvares som [...]

By: Content Writing Advice « Nice, Smile

Content Writing Advice « Nice, Smile — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:02:22 +0000

[...] Accessible Title Tag Separator Sounds The site has souns clips of how the title tag separators that are commonly used sound to people that hear the internet. Lightly touches on the proper use of the separtors used in title tags as well. [...]

By: Data Tramp » Getting seen by the blind

Data Tramp » Getting seen by the blind — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:50:55 +0000

[...] I don’t think the average person needs a marketing expert to tell them that a trained broadcaster reading content will be more pleasant sounding than a computerized screen reader – especially on sites with hard to pronounce locations, industry terms or acronyms. Recording an audio alternative to text content on the site will also ensure proper pronunciation of complicated words. Link it at the top or as an item in internal navigation – or offer it as a hidden link at the top of each section of content. All love for Freedom Scientific, but if I were a corporation I wouldn’t want to trust how my marketing sounds to JAWS. Might as well have a speak and spell read beer commercials. For the uninitiated, listen to JAWS read punctuation. [...]

By: Fixing my Wordpress Title Tags - MeganJack.com

Fixing my Wordpress Title Tags - MeganJack.com — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:24:40 +0000

[...] That still has the » characters so I replaced those with hyphens (when choosing a title separator, think about how a screen reader would read it. » reads “right double angle bracket”. No good. I used to like | but that is read as “vertical bar”. Also no good. A plain old “dash” or “colon” work best). [...]

By: Emil Virkki

Emil Virkki — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:56:37 +0000

I like to use a double colon ” :: “. It’s easily distinguished from the surrounding text as the colon appears twice, which is unnatural in normal text. The word colon is also short, so reading “colon colon” outloud doesn’t require a lot of waiting.

By: Lymmo

Lymmo — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:45:39 +0000

I think it’s ironic that this website uses a dash in its own title…

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:49:47 +0000

I kind of like the look of this vertical swirl ∫ (∫). But wondering what it is called in a screen reader… Unlike arrows, IE for Macs can actually parse this correctly. Another possibility is this variation on the pipe: ¦ (¦) and I am also wondering what screen readers call this symbol.

Although subtle, I do like the interpunct, and I still like the pipe (after reading the various pros and cons). I also like the fact that the screen reader just reads short one syllable words for these entities.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 04:49:44 +0000

If I’m separating a page title from a site title, would it make sense to separate them with the ‘@’ symbol? Not only would it make semantic sense, but I’m guessing the screen reader would pronounce it as “at”?