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Re: Suppressing visibility of "invisible" frames?

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From: ben morrison
Date: Mar 12, 2007 3:30AM

On 3/12/07, Bergel, Marguerite < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some of our Web sites make use of frames that are supposed to be
> invisible. These frames contain parameters that are relevant only to
> systems, but provide nothing useful to human users. Screen readers don't
> even pick up on the data within these frames, just the fact that the
> frames themselves are there.
>
> Is there a way to suppress visibility of frames that are supposed to be
> invisible but aren't to JAWS/Window Eyes? E.g. is there an alt=""
> equivalent for frames? I've done some preliminary research, but haven't
> come up with anything.

You could try by hiding the content with CSS, since its accepted that
screen readers will not read content with display:none attached to it.
So either use display:none on the iframe or a containing div.

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility

ben
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Ben Morrison