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Re: Interesting effect with CSS

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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Jan 8, 2012 5:42PM

I've run some tests on that. It's inconsistent at best and can also
interfere with the formatting in some cases because it is deleted (at least
it appears) AFTER added to JAWS' virtual buffer.

That's my 2 cents.

Ryan
On Jan 7, 2012 9:29 PM, "Bryan Garaventa" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I came a cross this the other day.
>
> For a while I thought that using the CSS technique :after or :before would
> be useful for displaying content visually but hiding it from screen
> readers, such as adding a graphical arrow or plus/minus sign on a menu or
> similar like so:
>
> li.treeitem:after {
> content: '+';
> }
>
> Which is invisible in IE using JAWS and NVDA. However this actually is
> visible in both JAWS and NVDA using Firefox.
>
> No idea if this is helpful or not, but I thought it was interesting.
>
> Bryan
>