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Re: Expander links

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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Apr 15, 2010 2:54AM


Sounds like a perfect job for AJAX to me. Just call your content from
external from external pages!?


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
Sent: 14 April 2010 18:10
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Expander links

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Steven Henderson wrote:

> Maybe I am missing something, but couldn't you get a closer result to what
> you want by specifying a negative position to the content to be expanded
via
> javascript, rather than actually hiding it!?

Yes, but this suffers the same problem as the height:0 recommendation
- the off-screen content is still read by screen readers and navigated
by the keyboard before it is expanded. So, it is really only hidden
visually. I want a solution that truly toggles the content existence
to AT rather than just toggles its visual display.