WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Off-left vs. block/none oddity.

for

From: pixeldiva
Date: Feb 3, 2006 8:15AM

On 03/02/06, Christian Heilmann < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hiding things via CSS and hoping JavaScript will be available to show
> them is bad development practice, as you rely on two technologies that
> might not be available.

Exactly, which was what slightly confused me. Might just be me reading
it wrong (have a bad head cold and should probably stay away from
email :))

> The screen reader question might have been not properly formed by me,
> hence the misunderstanding. I am not hiding anything with CSS but only
> when JS is available - actually I don't even provide any links to show
> and hide the sub sections when JS is turned off.

So, let me get this straight:

When JS is off and CSS is off, everything is shown?

When JS is off and CSS is on, what happens?

When JS is on and CSS is off (less common scenario, but possible), what happens?

> The scenario I am interested in is screen reader + JS enabled.

I've forwarded it to three experienced screen reader users to give it
a go. Will let you know what they come back with.

--
Ann
http://www.pixeldiva.co.uk