If you're interested in website accessibility best practices, you might have come across warnings against using display: none
to hide content that you don't want to appear on screen. The argument is that content hidden with display: none
can't be accessed by people using screen readers, and the recommended solution is to position the content offscreen instead using a large negative position (let's call this the offset method). But this shouldn't be a hard and fast rule for all situations. There are some situations for which using display: none
will be acceptable.
Accessibility Articles
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Tools for checking website accessibility
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Following on from my last post in which I mentioned screenreaders (or alternatives) that people might like to try for checking their own sites' accessibilty, and an earlier post in which I listed the extensions I use for web development with Firefox, I thought I'd also list the different tools I use for testing website accessibility.
The web from a screenreader user’s perspective
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Victor Tsaran, an engineer and Program Manager for Accessibility at Yahoo!, has put together a 27-minute video introducing screen readers and how they interact with web pages.