Re: "Blind for a Day" - visibility: hidden vs none

Jim,
Your results are correct, but you're generalizing a little.
visibility:hidden and display:none do hide the content, but not when applied
in all possible ways.  You can apply these styles in the <style> element,
inline, or in an external stylesheet.  The external stylesheet can be
referenced via the link element or using @import.  The results are not the
same.

I have done a set of tests (am missing some data on HPR 3.02). My test file
is at:
http://www.webaccessibility.info/lab/displaytest.html

AWK

On 5/18/04 12:25 PM, "Jim Thatcher" <jim@jimthatcher.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Steph,
> 
> I am using JAWS 4.51 and for me visibility:hidden hides the text from JAWS.
> Visibility:none is not valid style but display:none is. Display:none hides
> the text from JAWS for me. Both Visibility:hidden and display:none hide the
> text from both Window-Eyes (4.5) and HPR (3.02) as well. My test file is
> http://jimthatcher.com/test/visibility.htm. Bottom line, both
> visibility:hidden and display:none hide JAWS, Window-Eyes, and HPR on my
> machine.
> 
> Jim
> Accessibility, What Not to do: http://jimthatcher.com/whatnot.htm.
> Web Accessibility Tutorial: http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of Stephani Roberts Lincoln
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:52 AM
> To: 'WAI-IG'
> Subject: RE: "Blind for a Day" - visibility: hidden vs none
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Related to some comments here and screen readers response to visibility:
> none. With JAWS visibility:hidden works to hide text from the browser
> display while the screen reader picks up the text and voices it (not true
> of visibility:none). Can anyone tell me if this true for IBM HPR and Window
> Eyes?
> 
> thanks,
> Steph
> 
> 
> At 07:11 PM 5/17/2004 -0500, Jim Thatcher wrote:
> 
>> Joe,
>> 
>> It has nothing to do with verbosity settings. His recommendations are
>> absolutely right on; every one. He did mention putting main content near
> the
>> top because "the thing I hated the most was having to blast past five
>> hundred links in a sidebar in order to get to the actual content." I am
>> impressed with how well this guy understood the problems of listening to
> web
>> content. Very unusual.
>> 
>> Jim
>> Accessibility, What Not to do: http://jimthatcher.com/whatnot.htm.
>> Web Accessibility Tutorial: http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf
>> Of Joe Clark
>> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:36 PM
>> To: WAI-IG
>> Subject: "Blind for a Day"
>> 
>> 
>> Bloggeur tries out IBM Home Page Reader and shares tips. He should
>> learn about verbosity settings, though.
>> 
>> <http://www.mojombo.com/archives/000034.html>
>> --
>> 
>>      Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org | <http://joeclark.org/access/>
>>      Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
>>      Expect criticism if you top-post
> 
> 
> 
>

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