RE: Invisible elements for additional link text

Hi Christian

I'm trying to figure out why they would make the additional information invisible.  It's not just about accessibility for screen reader users.  What was their rationale?


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From: Christian Biggins [cbiggins@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:03 PM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Invisible elements for additional link text

Hi Guys,

I requested one of our designers make our 'read more' links more descriptive to include things like 'read more about article title' and his response was to have;

'<span>Read More <span class="invisible">about topic title</span></span>'

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.

Reference; http://webaim.org/articles/gonewild/#hidden

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Christian Biggins


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