Re: ISSUE-95 hidden - Chairs Solicit Proposals

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu> wrote:
> What are the problems of using the following CSS code to render some element off screen, yet still have it available to speech renderings, like a screen reader:
>
> .offscreen {
>  position: absolute;
>  left: -300em;
>  top:-30em
> }

That's not what hidden is meant for.  hidden means hidden from *all*
user-agents, including screen readers, and UAs that don't support CSS
(such as bots, theoretically).

Received on Friday, 15 January 2010 14:52:47 UTC