- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:36:22 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > 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. I added a paragraph on that, but I haven't added the example itself. Right now the section has way more about how _not_ to use hidden="" than about how to use it. That's a bad balance. We should add more examples of how hidden="" can be good. Suggestions welcome. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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