At 05:44 PM 1/29/2006, SunUp wrote:
Does anyone know of a method which will toggle the visibility of the
FAQ "answers" while still displaying everything properly without
javascript, and that adheres to current best practise for javascript?
Hmm. The text-toggling examples folks have posted on this topic use
{display: none} to hide text. I'm under the impression that some
screen readers will not speak text that's been hidden with {display: none}. [1]
If so, then it would make much more sense to use a technique like this:
hide:
position: absolute;
left: -1000em;
show:
position: static;
or:
position: relative;
or:
left: N;
...depending on the application.
This would guarantee that the text would always be accessible to
screen-readers even when hidden from display -- the same sort of
graceful degradation we expect of toggle systems when JavaScript is disabled.
Regards,
Paul
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[1] A few references on this topic easily revealed by googling
display+none+screen+reader:
ScreenreaderVisibility < CSS-D wiki
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility
What do Screen Readers really say? by Bob Easton
http://eleaston.com/bob/screenreader-visibility.html
Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement by Joe Clark
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/
Screen readers and display: none by Simon Willison
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/09/13/screenReaders
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