- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:05:29 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
It also depends on how the screen reader gets its content - readers that are too smart about colours (a useful feature) will realise that the text is invisible and skip it. (given the way this is normally used to stuff keywords in pages, it is not a bad practice). Charles McCN On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, David Woolley wrote: > Would it be acceptable to provide a warning message, > something like 'Submitting this form may result in a > pop-up dialog being displayed' before the submit > button, in the same color as the background? > Thus (I believe) making the text available to screen > reader users but not to sighted users? This will show up on any device that cannot display colours or doesn't understand the styling used to set the colours. It is a known trick for stuffing keywords for search engines and may result in the site being boycotted by major search engines. One is expecting a major change in content when one submits a form, so one of the main reasons for avoiding popups doesn't apply. -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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