RE: "Blind for a Day" - visibility: hidden vs none

I usually hide my skip to content link through CSS and send the link off the
screen. 

#skipnav{
	position: 			absolute;
	left: 			-1000px;
	width: 			990px;
	font-size:			1px; 
	line-height:		1;
}

Here is an example page of where I used this:
http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/catalog/ 

Hopefully this works on a screen reader. Let me know if it doesn't.


Juan C. Ulloa 

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Stephani Roberts Lincoln [mailto:stephani@MIT.EDU]
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:43 AM
>  To: Jim Thatcher; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
>  Subject: RE: "Blind for a Day" - visibility: hidden vs none
>  
>  
>  Hi Jim,
>  
>  Thanks for testing this. So, as far you know, is there a safe way to hide
>  something visually in CSS but have it visible to a screen reader? We have
>  a
>  number of web applications that are for financial folks here at MIT and
>  the
>  developers are   always looking for a clever way to give cues to screen
>  reader users that may not be necessary for sighted users, mainly because
>  the extra information creates additional "noise" in these apps -- many of
>  which are already jam packed with information.
>  
>  thanks,
>  steph
>  
>  At 11:25 AM 5/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>  
>  >Hi Steph,
>  >
>  >I am using JAWS 4.51 and for me visibility:hidden hides the text from
>  JAWS.
>  >Visibility:none is not valid style but display:none is. Display:none
>  hides
>  >the text from JAWS for me. Both Visibility:hidden and display:none hide
>  the
>  >text from both Window-Eyes (4.5) and HPR (3.02) as well. My test file is
>  >http://jimthatcher.com/test/visibility.htm. Bottom line, both
>  >visibility:hidden and display:none hide JAWS, Window-Eyes, and HPR on my
>  >machine.
>  >
>  >Jim
>  >Accessibility, What Not to do: http://jimthatcher.com/whatnot.htm.
>  >Web Accessibility Tutorial: http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
>  >
>  >
>  >-----Original Message-----
>  >From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
>  Behalf
>  >Of Stephani Roberts Lincoln
>  >Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:52 AM
>  >To: 'WAI-IG'
>  >Subject: RE: "Blind for a Day" - visibility: hidden vs none
>  >
>  >
>  >Hi,
>  >
>  >Related to some comments here and screen readers response to visibility:
>  >none. With JAWS visibility:hidden works to hide text from the browser
>  >display while the screen reader picks up the text and voices it (not
>  true
>  >of visibility:none). Can anyone tell me if this true for IBM HPR and
>  Window
>  >Eyes?
>  >
>  >thanks,
>  >Steph
>  >
>  >
>  >At 07:11 PM 5/17/2004 -0500, Jim Thatcher wrote:
>  >
>  > >Joe,
>  > >
>  > >It has nothing to do with verbosity settings. His recommendations are
>  > >absolutely right on; every one. He did mention putting main content
>  near
>  >the
>  > >top because "the thing I hated the most was having to blast past five
>  > >hundred links in a sidebar in order to get to the actual content." I
>  am
>  > >impressed with how well this guy understood the problems of listening
>  to
>  >web
>  > >content. Very unusual.
>  > >
>  > >Jim
>  > >Accessibility, What Not to do: http://jimthatcher.com/whatnot.htm.
>  > >Web Accessibility Tutorial: http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >-----Original Message-----
>  > >From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
>  >Behalf
>  > >Of Joe Clark
>  > >Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:36 PM
>  > >To: WAI-IG
>  > >Subject: "Blind for a Day"
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >Bloggeur tries out IBM Home Page Reader and shares tips. He should
>  > >learn about verbosity settings, though.
>  > >
>  > ><http://www.mojombo.com/archives/000034.html>
>  > >--
>  > >
>  > >      Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org |
>  <http://joeclark.org/access/>
>  > >      Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ |
>  <http://joeclark.org/book/>
>  > >      Expect criticism if you top-post

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