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From: GILLENWATER, ZOE M
Date: Nov 20, 2012 7:06AM

Bryan,

Thanks for testing my page. As I've said, the issue only occurs with labels, so you may be misunderstanding me. You'll certainly hear lots of the content with overflow:hidden (and the other CSS) applied. But once you apply it to a label, you won't hear it in NVDA and Firefox.

On http://zomigi.com/test/hiding-revised.html, if you jump down to the first form field (shortly after the <h2> "The following tests all use overflow:hidden in the CSS"), it has a label saying "Year" hidden with CSS that includes overflow:hidden, so you will not hear "Year" for this field while using NVDA and Firefox. The next two fields are labeled "Month" and "Day" but will also not have their labels spoken in NVDA/FF.

Zoe

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