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From: Rachel S.
Date: Jul 16, 2003 5:14PM

We have some forms, in an intranet application, that
have some data that we want to hide or show, depending
on what the user has selected. The data we want to
manipulate consists of text, hyperlinks, and input
fields. (Our target browser is Internet Explorer 5.5
and higher, and we can specify that users use newer
assistive technologies.)

We initially did our hiding and showing using the CSS
visibility property (with an onClick event). But we
were concerned that a screenreader that cannot handle
this CSS property will see all of the data, even the
items that we want to hide. (My assumption is that
most screenreaders currently don