Re: CSS property for visually hiding an element

• From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
• Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 10:33:32 +0100
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <410d612f-1cf6-b981-d427-90ebbd5240ae@david-woolley.me.uk>

On 03/04/17 15:21, Oliver Joseph Ash wrote:
> It is quite common for web developers to require an element to be hidden
> but only visually—that is, still accessible to screen readers and
> keyboard users, but not visible on the screen.
>

In principle, hiding visually, but not from a screen reader would be 
done by:

@media screen {
    display: none;
}

However, I suspect that screen readers try too hard to approximate the 
visual web page experience, that they will ignore hints aimed at them in 
this way, simply because they are too rarely used to justify the 
development effort.

Received on Tuesday, 4 April 2017 09:34:44 UTC