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Re: Showing / Hiding a Layer

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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Apr 1, 2009 12:30PM

I built one not long ago you can check out here:

http://bushidodesigns.net/tooltips/

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> Subject: [WebAIM] Showing / Hiding a Layer
> From: David Ashleydale < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Date: Wed, April 01, 2009 11:17 am
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> Have any of you come across a good, accessible example of hiding and showing
> a layer on a web page?
>
> I'm trying to implement this type of behavior: a link that a user can hover
> their mouse over or click to show a layer on top of the page that displays
> info about the link. For example, the text of a link says "amortization". If
> a user wants to get a definition of the word "amortization", they can hover
> their mouse over it or click on it. When they do so, a box appears near the
> link that says, "The process of paying off a debt, together with interest,
> usually with equal payments at regular intervals over a period of time."
>
> The box goes away when the user uses their mouse to move the cursor off the
> link, or when they click a "close" link inside the box.
>
> Has anyone managed to do this in an accessible way?
>
> Thanks,
> David Ashleydale
>