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Re: Longdesc vs d

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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: Oct 30, 2003 9:16AM

on 10/28/03 1:18 PM, <EMAIL REMOVED> at
<EMAIL REMOVED> profoundly spewed forth their very articulate
thoughts:

> 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).

I would NOT recommend text the same color as the background. This is seen as
spamming by most search engines since people used to hide keywords all over
their pages that way... It can be detrimental and even cause your page to be
blacklisted.

Stephanie Sullivan

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