RE: Display: none

Jon,
That is sometimes true, but not always, which is another reason to not
do that.

I wasn't representing any particular method as the way to go, just
putting my data out there so people can make informed decisions.

AWK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Gunderson [mailto:jongund@uiuc.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:32 AM
> To: Jim Tobias; Andrew Kirkpatrick; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Display: none
> 
> Jim and Andrew,
> "display:none" will also hide the h1 from screen readers.  A 
> better approach is to use absolute positioning on the h1, so 
> screen readers will still read the h1 content.
> 
> h1 {
>   position: absolute;
>   left: -200em;
>   top: -20em;
> }
> 
> The use of absolute positioning takes the h1 out of normal 
> rendering order and by placing in a location off the rendered 
> screen it serves the same function as "display: none" but 
> leaves the h1 visible to screen readers.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:22:06 -0500
> >From: "Jim Tobias" <tobias@inclusive.com>
> >Subject: RE: Display: none
> >To: "'Andrew Kirkpatrick'" <akirkpat@adobe.com>,
> <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> >
> >   Andrew -- this is so great.  It's really a model for
> >   how detailed web access issues should be explored
> >   and documented.  Thanks.
> >    
> >
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> >   Jim Tobias
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> >    
> >
> >     ------------------------------------------------
> >
> >     From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org
> >     [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
> >     Andrew Kirkpatrick
> >     Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:06 PM
> >     To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> >     Subject: RE: Display: none
> >     my data on this topic:
> >     http://www.webaccessibility.info/lab/displaytest.html
> >      
> >     AWK
> >
> >     ------------------------------------------------
> >
> >       From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org
> >       [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
> >       Mike Costello
> >       Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:58 PM
> >       To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> >       Subject: Display: none
> >       Hello,
> >        
> >       I was just wondering what peoples thoughts were
> >       on the use of the css property "display: none"
> >       to provide content to screen readers that's
> >       hidden from visual browsers.
> >        
> >       The context that I was planning to use this, was
> >       to hide h1 text titles from visual browsers by
> >       using the display: none property to hide
> >       them and replacing them with graphical titles
> >       displayed using the css background property.
> >        
> >       So for example;
> >        
> >       HTML
> >        
> >       <h1><span class="hidethis">This is my
> >       title</span></h1>   
> >        
> >       CSS
> >        
> >       h1 {
> >           background:
> >       url("images/this_is_my_title.gif");
> >           width: 150px;
> >           height: 20px;
> >       }
> >        
> >       .hidethis {
> >           display: none;
> >       }
> >        
> >       My belief is that this would render the
> >       graphical image of the title in visual browsers
> >       like Internet Explorer etc. and the text
> >       h1 title in screen readers and browsers with CSS
> >       turned off. I'm I correct in making this
> >       assumption? What are people's opinion on this
> >       methodology?
> >        
> >       Many thanks in advance of any help anyone can
> >       offer,
> >        
> >       Mike
> >
> >       Kind regards.
> >
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