- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:01:47 +0930
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Rebecca Cox wrote in the first instance: >>I still often see (and get asked to implement) content "hidden" from >>screen display with CSS, that is meant to provide some sort of extra >>information to users of text/speech browsers. David Wooley replied: > Note that as these techniques make the content accessible to search > engine indexers, but not to "normal" users, they are all likely to > be abused to stuff keywords and therefore result in low search engine > rankings. Matthew Smith responds: Are we saying that even a "skip navigation" link as per the WCAG2 technique that Rebecca mentions* would be liable to drive a page down in search engine rankings? If so, this would constitute an accessibility technique reducing the accessibility of a page because is not being able to find a page a part of its overall accessibility? Cheers M *<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20040730/#linkgroups_hide> -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy South Australia
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