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From: Jared Smith
Date: Apr 15, 2010 9:54AM

> Jared Smith wrote:
>> (except those seemingly mythical folks that browse with styles disabled).

< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Just to provide a real-life use case for browsing with styles
> disabled, I have speech macros for toggling styles on and off.

Christian Heilmann wrote:
> Like people on Blackberries with the out-of-the-box browser instead of
> Opera Mini?

Exactly. Thus the word "seemingly".

While this group is admittedly very small, hiding content or controls
within the page with CSS may pose a problem for them. It highlights
the importance of good semantic structure and placing the 'hidden'
content within the page in a location where it is most likely to make
sense, or at the very bottom of the page if it doesn't make sense in
context.

Using progressive enhancement to ensure that the underlying page works
without scripting and styling enabled is also important. But there are
many cases where removing the middle layer of styling without
disabling javascript is going to render an unusable page.

Note that WCAG 2.0 has no requirement for the page to function or be
readable when styles are disabled.

Steven suggested AJAX to load this content on demand. That might
resolve this issue, but it also adds overhead and a potential delay
which may not be tolerable.

Jared