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RE: Longdesc vs d

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From: julian.rickards
Date: Oct 28, 2003 11:27AM

As a result of the FIR technique, a number of people have been exploring the
accessibility of such a technique including Joe Clark's article at
http://www.alistapart.com. It has since been discovered that screen reader
support for display:none and visibility:hidden is confusing at best. In the
tutorial you provided a link to, you suggest the use of text the same color
as the background which "hides" the "d" link (visibly anyway). Has anyone
tested to see if text hidden in this manner is available/unavailable to JAWS
just like display: none and visibility: hidden?

There may be a way out though - JAWS doesn't "see" styles that are imported
so one could create a rule in an imported stylesheet.

Jules

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Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
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