Inserting html into a text area - <br aria-hidden="true" />

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Hi,

Is there some way to insert html via the text input areas… I want to be able to make line breaks hidden to screen readers using something like:

Is there anyway I can to this?

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Hi @Ciro_C that’s not possible unfortunately. Are the line breaks not handled well? Course content has been audited for WCAG 2.1 conformance and they didn’t flag anything related to that.

Cheers-Sam

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Hiya Sam, thanks for the fast reply. I know that “br” creates problems with screen readers, we would like to control layout using line breaks at times but can’t unless break spaces don’t interfere. The above piece of code apparently removes “br” from being read. Do you guys build something that makes screen readers not read the “br” ?

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@Ciro_C I know in the past NVDA specifically has had a habit of reading line breaks, but I haven’t noticed any issues with reading text fields that include line breaks. I usually test with VoiceOver, JAWS and NVDA. Has someone experienced an issue? If you can give me a specific example, I can investigate.

Cheers-Sam