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Re: Using CSS to hide a portion of the link text

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Aug 3, 2009 10:05AM

Why cant I use the url as the link name as long as the surrounding
text lets me know where I am going.

As a screen reader user if I happen to use the JAWS drop down menu
and come upon a url then I'll just go to the link and hope the
designer has given me something to identify where I am going.




At 09:31 AM 8/3/2009, you wrote:
> >
> > Geof Collis < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > These ideas sound good in principle but what happens if someone wants
> > to print off the page and take it to a presentation where the link
> > url is necessary.
> >
>
>You shouldn't use URLs as link text to begin with (and none of these
>examples do). If you want them to be printable then you can do this using a
>good print CSS although IEs support for that is somewhat lacking.
>