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RE: JAWS and relative positioning

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 31, 2006 9:50AM

Yep, missed that. Sounds like a JAWS CSS parsing issue. I moved the line out of the @media section and it removes the sidebar visually as well as for JAWS,

Seems fixed in JAWS 7.1.

You might want to try moving reapplying the display property below the @media section, just to see if that solves the issue. A hack, but it might do it.

AWK

> -----Original Message-----
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> Stephane Deschamps
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:28 AM
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> Subject: RE: [WebAIM] JAWS and relative positioning
>
> <quote who="Andrew Kirkpatrick">
> > This issue is caused, at least in part by this line in the CSS:
> > div#access, div#sidebar, p.backtotop { display:none; }
> >
> > JAWS is honoring that in the newer versions and not
> earlier. This is
> > in line with my test results at
> > http://webaccessibility.info/lab/displaytest.html
> >
> > This is a good change in JAWS. [...]
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks for taking the time for this, but actually the
> display:none is in the @media print section of the CSS, so
> the problem *may* be connected because the problematic links
> are indeed in these three containers, but then it would be a
> true hair-splitter.
>
> --
> Stephane Deschamps
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> http://www.parisweb2006.org/
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