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

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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Aug 3, 2009 12:15PM

The question is, do sighted people need to read it, or is the meaning clear
in context?

For example, I've created css bar graphs that show the percentage of
something. It's very clear from looking at the colored bar what number it
represents if you are sighted. Screenreader users get a hidden span that
says what the percent is. Is it discrimination because I'm not spelling out
the percent to the sighted user too? I don't think so.


On 8/3/09 10:56 AM, "Geof Collis" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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?