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Re: Again: Hiding form labels with display:none?

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From: James Nurthen
Date: Feb 11, 2013 11:14PM

Hopefully off-screen labels for form fields will disappear now we can use
aria-label to accomplish the same thing. They were always a hack and now
there is a suitable replacement we should stop using them.

Regards,
James

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:20 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I think putting content off screen is so wide spread that we must work to
> make it a standard either by adding an attribute in html like
> offscreen="true" or by adding css display:offscreen
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