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

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Feb 5, 2006 6:00PM

Can anyone suggest why the CSS z-index property could not used to
position content behind other content (as against pushing content off
screen), so it is effectively hidden from visual presentation, but
available to screen readers (as the z-index is not interpreted by screen
readers as far as i know).

Here is a (not particularly good) example of this method I experimented
with a while back, using it to visually present a number of simple data
tables as one complex table.
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/table.html


with regards


Steven Faulkner
Web Accessibility Consultant
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