On 27/05/2009, at 2:26 AM, Spellacy, Michael wrote:
It was recently brought to my attention that a few elements I
have placed on a site that have text indented 9999px to the left for
accessibility might be viewed as a form of cloaking by some search
engines. Is my colleague correct in this assessment? If so, is there a
middle ground that can be met to make search engines and visually
impaired folks happy?
Yes, it is an issue, and at times people will jump on it.
It really comes down to how much you've done, and what it looks like.
Its the sort of thing that will be picked up in a manual review, and
they aren't that common.
I tend to use a class name like class="accessabilityonly" for these
fields, in the hopes of giving a reviewer at least a clue as to what I
am doing, but it isn't a well defined field.
The litmus test is: if you took them out., would you be more worried
about the search engines not seeing your text, or the accessability
implications...
hope it helps :)
Lea
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Lea de Groot
Elysian Systems
Brisbane, .au
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