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Re: Interesting effect with CSS

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 8, 2012 4:18AM

On 08/01/2012 03:37, Jared Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Bryan Garaventa
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Which is invisible in IE using JAWS and NVDA. However this actually is visible in both JAWS and NVDA using Firefox.
>
> Interesting. I'd think it would be preferable to have this CSS content
> NOT read by any screen reader. If used correctly, CSS shouldn't be
> used to present real content.

I think that's one of those chicken and egg situations...if authors used
CSS the way it's meant, and in particular didn't use CSS content for
actual important content generation, then yes screenreaders should
ignore it. As there are probably enough cases where this isn't happening
(i.e. enough sites that do rely on CSS content for important content),
assistive technology had to adapt.

P
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Patrick H. Lauke