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Re: the "Read More" links vs elipsis

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From: Angela French
Date: Dec 7, 2011 1:39PM

Yes, I suppose that might work for my circumstances. However, I have noticed that in Contribute it can be difficult to apply spans to selected text. I'll put it on my to-try list. Thanks.

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>Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:05 PM
>To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] the "Read More" links vs elipsis
>
>Angela French wrote:
>>
>> I have read the various suggestions and while they are great if you
>> get to hand code a page, for a site that is maintained by content
>> editors using a CMS where writing any code at all is impossible, I
>> have to resort to a more "spelled-out" solution for the typical "read more"
>> approach.
>>
>
>Hi Angela,
>
>How about something like this:
>
>.offscreen {
> position:absolute;
> left:-999px;
> top:-999px;
>}
>
><h3>$Title</h3>
><p>$teaser</p>
><p><a href="$Link"><span class="offscreen">$Title :</span>Read More</a></p>
>
>(pseudo code used to illustrate the idea)
>