Announce whitespace in screen reader announcements of visually hidden text #960
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… text This fixes a bug in the nhsuk-u-visually-hidden helper class where any whitespace surrounding visually hidden text isn't announced by screen readers. This fix was added to `govuk-frontend` in [pull request #3868](alphagov/govuk-frontend#3836) and has been re-applied here. Thanks to @hannalaakso for the work upstream. Co-Authored-By: hannalaakso <[email protected]>
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This fixes a bug in the nhsuk-u-visually-hidden helper class where any whitespace surrounding visually hidden text isn't announced by screen readers.
This fix was added to
govuk-frontendin pull request #3868 and released in v4.7.0 and has been re-applied here.Thanks to @hannalaakso for the work upstream. 🙌
I’ve also followed the approach of the GOV.UK Design System team of adding a Typography page with examples of using visually-hidden text, to make testing easier.