Re: "invisible" alternate links: accessible?

Consider this scenario:
a sighted user, navigating with the keyboard only,
using the Tab key to move around the page.
They will tab to and stop on the 'invisible' links.
What???

Kathleen Anderson, Webmaster
State of Connecticut, Office of the State Comptroller
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----- Original Message -----
From: Zachary Mutrux <zacm@etr.org>
To: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:59 PM
Subject: "invisible" alternate links: accessible?


> Ahoy the WAI IG:
>
> What do you think about making certain text the same color as the page
> background, if it is intended for users of text-only browsers? I have done
> this with alternate text navigation links, which appear at the bottom of
> each page in a site I'm working on. My reasoning is that they pose an
> unnecessary visual distraction for sighted users, but their color poses no
> barrier to users with impaired vision.
>
> I'd be interested to hear what others think of this practice.
>
> zm
>
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