Re: Invisible elements for additional link text

• From: <deborah.kaplan@suberic.net>
• Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:13:42 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
• To: Christian Biggins <cbiggins@gmail.com>
• cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
• Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.2.00.1209130010230.7908@gratuity_tucci>

> '<span>Read More <span class="invisible">about topic title</span></span>'
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> I know that the WebAIM guys are ok with invisible text for adding additional information for descriptive technologies, I was
> wondering what everybody elses opinions were.

Invisible links are great when the information isn't useful to sighted folks, but this information *is*. Dragon NaturallySpeaking users can dictate the name of a link; making the unique component invisible breaks that functionality. (Not to mention able-bodied users who visually skim the page for bolded text.)

-Deborah
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Deborah Kaplan
Accessibility Team co-lead
Dreamwidth Studios LLC

Received on Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:14:11 UTC