Hi, Could you please help me on this one?
I've been trying to workaround a semantic problem in a site.
Since the is intended to be used as a template, I intend to use only text and background on the header.
To avoid low contrast situations, I decided to use an absolute positioned div simulating a shadow.
You can see it here: http://unbound.no.sapo.pt/acad/index.htm
Problem is it doesn't make sense on a screen reader to get two header titles one being an h1 and another being a p.
(you can see it with the default style sheet - no positioning, basic styling - here: http://unbound.no.sapo.pt/acad/defaultquasar33.htm )
Now, what I have is:
The name of a school discipline, and the course, year and semestre that discipline belongs to;
The name of a school and the current school year.
My h1 is the name of the discipline and the site is for the students of that discipline.
So I gave myself a try on a definition list. I stripped it to the dl here: http://unbound.no.sapo.pt/testes/testesdl.htm
Problem now is I cannot figure how to get it to properly work on ie 5.5win.
It works in mozillas, opera (oh well, here it doesn't wrap but gets min-width), ie 5.01win and ie 6win
(I do not own a mac, so I cannot know how it works in any of its browsers - and as for ies, i'm testing on a multiple ie instalation, somaby things do not show exactly that way in real instalations).
The text gets each word on a line regardless of what I do, unless I give a fixed width to the dt - no percentage will work or a white-space: nowrap.
Holy hack with height on anything won't work.
Changing the display properties will break the list.
Fixing the list with defined sizes or defining a width for the dl will break it also (unless I'm doing it the wrong way).
Now the layout is completly liquid except for a defined min-width for the browsers that do support it.
I need the text to wrap on smaller space, and not to cross that space, so nowraping or a fixed size won't work.
Google gives me nothing on this.
Is there anyway to fix this?
Just to make ie 5.5 behave like 5.01 or 6 in this case?
Or should I just keep it the way it was, with no dl?
Can I hide the shadow text from screen readers yet not from all other browsers?
Thank you all,
Isabel Santos
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