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RE: Showing and hiding data

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Jul 17, 2003 2:40AM

Hi Rachel,

It is difficult to tell without knowing what kind of information it is
you are showing/hiding, but the easiest way to assure accessibility is
to make sure it works without CSS or JavaScript.

So long as it is usable without CSS, or JavaScript, or both (3 different
situations) it should be OK. Otherwise, you will end up having to work
out which screen reader/text browser supports what. (Like my
conversation about Jaws recently!)

There might then be more content available you would like, but I guess
it is a judgement call as to how much is too much.

hth,

-Alastair


> We have some forms, in an intranet application, that
> have some data that we want to hide or show, depending
> on what the user has selected.


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