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Re: JAWS 10 and Hidden Text

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From: Terrill Thompson
Date: Mar 23, 2009 3:55PM

Hi Randi,

You're correct - I expected Test 1 (using visibility:hidden) and Test 2
(using display:none) to both be hidden visibly, as well as hidden to screen
reader users. Test 3 is hidden by positioning text off screen, which has
become a widely accepted means of hiding content visibly that you want
screen readers to read.

My initial concern when I saw the JAWS "bug fix" was that they might have
"fixed" the off-screen positioning solution. Fortunately that's not the
case.

Jared correctly pointed out that the JAWS fix applies to a bug documented in
a Juicy Studio article, where JAWS was erroneously reading content hidden
using display:none, but only under certain very specific circumstances (only
on span elements nested within anchor tags).

Terry

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