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From: adam solomon
Date: May 17, 2011 10:33AM

Thanks for the feedback. If anyone is willing to check with their Jaws 11
I'd be grateful. I want to be 100% sure of what the outcome is. I know for a
fact that in previous versions it read such content - because it couldn't
figure out that it was hidden based on such css. I'm skeptical about whether
it can figure it now. Also, what if I made the height and width to 1 and
then set the opacity to 0 - would it also not read it?

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Denis Boudreau < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> Yes it does hide it for everybody. In a nutshell, screen readers do this
> because they tend to comply with the CSS recommendations that say that
> content set to "hidden" should be invisible to users.
>
> Although, in this case, I'm not sure whether screen readers ignore it
> because of the width and height being set at 0, or because the overflow is
> set to hidden (I would tend to believe it's the latter, considering how SR
> behave with visibility: hidden).
>
> Hoping this helps!
>
> /Denis
>
>
>
> On 2011-05-17, at 8:14 AM, adam solomon wrote:
>
> > This article on hidden
> > content<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/now-you-see-me/>;indicates
> > that height:0; width:0; overflow:hidden; will hide content from
> > screen readers as well as sighted users. Can anyone out there verify this
> > (that screen readers don't read such content), especially as regards Jaws
> > 11?
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > adam solomon
> > linkedin <http://il.linkedin.com/pub/adam-solomon/24/449/a4>;
> > blogix <http://adam.blogix.co.il/>;
> >