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Re: Hiding inaccessible charts from screen readers?

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From: Greg Jellin
Date: Aug 23, 2019 2:15PM

Thanks Jonathan, We intend to hide the chart from AT using aria-hidden.
We won't be doing any detection or hiding the chart visually.

Greg

On 8/23/2019 12:03 PM, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> HI Greg,, I'm not sure how you intend to hide the chart from screen reader users -- but I'd recommend not trying to detect a screen reader and then hiding the chart visually as there are a lot of people with low vision and other disabilities who may want the visual chart and need the table of data.
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