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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.