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

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 4, 2006 8:45AM

pixeldiva wrote:
> 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.

The next version of JAWS will (at least according to Freedom Scientific)
have its own DOM interpreting engine separate from IE. It will reportedly
fix many of these inconsistencies, plus allow developers to manipulate
elements with DOM, DHTML, etc. and still have them be (theoretically)
accessible. It will probably also mean that lots of things will change and
we'll have a new set of screen reader inconsistencies to deal with.

Jared Smith
WebAIM.org