Someone's been playing silly buggers with Mediawiki: messages and CSS.

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham Pearce grahamwp@optusnet.com.au Date: 22-Oct-2006 06:27 Subject: [Wikitech-l] major accessibility problem recently introduced to MediaWiki To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org

I'm user:Graham87 on the english wikipedia. I use a screen reader called JAWS from Freedom Scientific at: www.freedomscientific.com It is the most popular Windows screen reader at the moment.

My problem is that it appears that the edit link has become part of the title of each section created with wiki markup. This problem is compounded when using quick navigation keys to navigate between sections; in this case, JAWS will stop reading a heading title when it encounters a link. Therefore, each heading title will be read as either "left bracket" or "edit" when I navigate between editable sections on a MediaWiki page. I tested this with JAWS 5.1 and 6.0, which aren't the most recent versions but are still widely used and the problem appears on both of them. I am using Windows XP with IE 6 (Firefox only works well with the latest versions of JAWS). The headings were working fine late last night my time (about 15:30 UTC on 21 October).

I would like this fixed as soon as possible so only the section title is spoken when navigating through headings.

Thanks, Graham

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