- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:07:14 -0700
- To: Zachary Mutrux <zacm@etr.org>
- Cc: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 10:59 AM 8/8/2000 , Zachary Mutrux wrote: >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? It's a hack but not a particularly elegant one, and as an inelegant hack has the potential to introduce serious problems and confusion. I suggest that a CSS2 solution would generally work better -- oh, and as many people have used the 'same color as the background' trick to try to fool search engines, using this strategy extensively *could lead to your site being completely excluded from search engines*. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ Blueprint for Single-A WCAG Accessibility http://kynn.com/+blueprint
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