|  | Posted by Jedi Fans on 09/07/05 09:49 
Els wrote:> Neredbojias wrote:
 >
 >> With neither quill nor qualm, Els quothed:
 >>
 >>> Els wrote:
 >>>
 >>>> Neredbojias wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>> With neither quill nor qualm, kchayka quothed:
 >>>>>
 >>>>>> Neredbojias wrote:
 >>>>>>>   text-indent: -5000px; /* hide text from css enabled browsers */
 >>>>>> That's a method of image-replacement, one of the more bad ones, methinks
 >>>>>> (no method is actually good, some are just less bad than others). This
 >>>>>> one leaves the visitor with nothing when image loading is disabled. :(
 >>>>> I'd say bad indeed.  Why not just display:none; it if nothing else?
 >>>> If it's used to hide text from screen-readers:
 >>> Make that "if it's used to hide text from graphical browsers but
 >>> display it for screen-readers:"
 >>>
 >>>> several (if not most)
 >>>> screenreaders will parse the display:none; style as well.
 >> But a screen-reader wouldn't parse the text-indent line?
 >
 > Nope. A screen-reader just reads out what is there, in the order it is
 > in. It doesn't tell the reader: "the next paragraph is a little bit to
 > the right". It also does't tell you if something is placed off-screen.
 > I use position:absolute;top:-1000px;left:-100px; for 'invisible links'
 > myself. I guess that ultimately, a screen-reader can do a lot, but not
 > detect your screensize and/or window size, font-size and scrollbar
 > position, and calculate whether a certain position of an element is
 > still visible to the visitor or not.
 > I guess they could implement that too, but so far it doesn't look like
 > they did.
 >
 > You can download Jaws and try for yourself. It's an expensive program,
 > but there is a free '40-minute-mode', wich means you can use it for 40
 > minutes a day. Enough time to test the work of one day, usually :-)
 >
 try FANGS, a Mozilla Firefox extension which outputs text which it would
 be speaking instead of speaking it ;) much easier lol, plus free ;)
 <http://www.standards-schmandards.com/fangs/>
 
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