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

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 3, 2006 8:45AM

I also have a chart that looks at this:
http://www.webaccessibility.info/lab/displaytest.html

AWK

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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Off-left vs. block/none oddity.
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> On 03/02/06, Christian Heilmann < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > The question now is how screen readers deal with the activation and
> > navigation in it. If that is fine, I think it is a more
> obvious choice
> > for JavaScript driven menus to go the block/none way - pending you
> > don't hide the elements via CSS from the beginning.
>
> The trouble is that more screen readers these days
> (specifically JAWS springs to mind, but there are others) are
> parsing CSS and so if you use display: none then it doesn't
> get read out at all.
>
> There's a chart at
> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility
> (which you probably already know about, and if so, I
> apologise) with testing for both display: none and
> visibility: hidden, but screen readers have moved on a bit
> since that was done. I tend to take the view that it's not
> worth the risk both now and in the future.
>
> --
> Ann
> http://www.pixeldiva.co.uk
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