- From: Jim Thatcher <jim@jimthatcher.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:53:19 -0500
- To: "'David Woolley'" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
David Woolley said:
> (Tools like JAWS are AT, not screen readers.)
I just couldn't leave it alone. What possesed you to day this?
Jim
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Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 1:34 AM
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Subject: Re: additional label question
> I am wondering, could you have have:
> .hide { display: none; }
>
> And will screen readers still read that?
CSS conforming user agents will not render that in any medium.
Screen readers used on top of a CSS conforming visual browser obviously
won't read it.
Assistive technology generally doesn't aim to be conforming (hence
the reason in the other thread that it tends to act as a visual
browser for CSS when rendering to speech), but rather to try and
work best for the user in the real world. However, I think it is
a slippery slope to deliberately mis-code pages to make them more
like bad HTML that the AT copes with (not that I'm saying that
current products override display: none, one way or the other).
(Tools like JAWS are AT, not screen readers.)
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