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Re: Site Map, Bobby, and WCAG 13.1

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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Jul 22, 2004 7:34AM








Don't
take this personally but I hate excessive markup for the purpose of applying
style such as a series of nested divs whose role is only to apply different
backgrounds to the same content. For example, the Onion Skinning technique
recently discussed at AListApart.com (<A
href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/onionskin/">http://www.alistapart.com/articles/onionskin/)
and this code below smacks of the same thing. It is a maintenance nightmare and
difficult for others who work with you or after you to maintain. Why
not simply use the Title attribute to add more information?
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jules
<FONT face=Georgia
color=#0000ff>-----------------------------------------------
Julian Rickards <FONT
face=Georgia color=#0000ff>A/Digitial Publications Distribution
Coordinator Publication Services
Section, Ministry of Northern
Development and Mines, Vox:
705-670-5608 / Fax: 705-670-5960

<FONT face=Tahoma
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PMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: Re: [WebAIM] Site
Map, Bobby, and WCAG 13.1
<FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I tend to do this with the "training" link being visible
and the program name wrapped in a <;span
class="hidden">;<;/span>;. Unfortunately Jaws honors display:none
so that doesn't work
<FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff
size=2>.hidden{width:1px;position:absolute;left:0;top:-100px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;}


<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><;a href="">;Training <;span class="hidden">;for
Program<;/span>;<;/a>;