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

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From: Evans, Donald (Contractor)
Date: Aug 3, 2009 12:05PM

I think of it more like describing a movie. In the case of the ecommerce site from our previous example, it's providing information that a sighted user could understand from the positioning of the information on the screen. As an example, if the Buy Link is next to a red camera, the sighted person knows which camera s/he is buying; however, the screen reader user would benefit from a link that says "Buy Red Camera".

As a side note, this is also beneficial to search engines too.



-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Geof Collis
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Using CSS to hide a portion of the link text

Ok, the more I think about this the less I understand.

If I'm hiding something that only screen readers can see/hear isn't
that reverse discrimination because sighted people wont be able to read it?


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.
>