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Re: JAWS vs @import and <link> stylesheets (Was: Rethinking "Skip to Content")

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Dec 2, 2004 11:17AM

julian.rickards wrote:
> OK, well maybe I am wrong here although I never (and I think I can use this
> absolute in this case) use @imported styles: all of my tests were done using
> ed stylesheets and that may account for the differences you and I have
> seen. I was under the impression that display:none was "invisible" to JAWS
> but maybe only with ed styles. I have not reinstalled JAWS since my
> system was re-imaged but I was testing the most recent version of a couple
> of months ago.
To follow up on this, I stumbled across this (see the chart at the bottom)
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility

It does indeed look like it's due to the @import.
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Patrick H. Lauke
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