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Re: ISSUE-95 hidden - Chairs Solicit Proposals

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:31:28 -0800
Message-ID: <dd0fbad1001162131v19657acfraabf44e903e1f0da@mail.gmail.com>
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> If anyone has any suggestions of examples or anti-examples that could be
> added to the spec to illustrate the correct interpretation of the
> attribute, please feel free to file bugs. I'd be happy to elaborate on the
> text in the spec, I just lack inspiration for how to do it in an effective
> way. (It's easy to come up with examples that confuse more than help.)

A quick anti-example showing that it is *not* meant to be used to hide
information from sighted users for accessibility purposes would be
good (you already have one about tabbed interfaces, which is good
because at first glance I'd have assumed it was appropriate for that).
 Something trivial involving "<a hidden href=#content>Skip to
content</a>" would work.

~TJ
Received on Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:32:15 UTC

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