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Re: Design conflict with link names

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From: Daniel Champion
Date: Mar 23, 2006 8:20AM

Neil wrote:

> Does anyone know a way to get around this problem and it still
> remain an accessible design.

There are techniques (hacks?) to get around this, for example use a <span>
around the text you don't want to be visible but still accessed by
screenreaders, and then place spans within anchors off-screen in CSS.

Here's a quick example: http://www.blether.com/sandbox/flexilinks.html
(untested in JAWS).

HTH.

Dan.
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