![]() ![]() In general, screen reader-only content should be reserved for information is apparent visually but not apparent to blind screen reader users. Use these techniques judiciously! Keep in mind that many screen reader users have some vision-what they see and what they hear should typically be in harmony. The following are the recommended styles for visually hiding content that will be read by a screen reader. Absolutely positioning content off-screen This approach may be a viable option if the element does not contain navigable elements, though better techniques are available. However, if a link, form control, or other focusable element is given this style, the element would be focusable, but not visible on the page-sighted keyboard users would likely be confused. Screen readers will still read text with this style. This approach moves the content to the left 10000 pixels - thus off the visible screen. All these techniques may result in search engine penalties as they may be interpreted as malicious. Content styled with font-size:0px or line-height:0 may work, though the elements would still take horizontal space on the screen. Do not size content to 0 pixels if you want the content to be read by a screen reader. width:0px, height:0px or other 0 pixel sizing techniques (not recommended)Īn element with no height or width, whether defined in HTML or CSS, is typically removed from the flow of the page, so most screen readers will not read it. When supported, it functions the same as CSS display:none-elements with this attribute will not be presented to any user. The HTML hidden attribute is relatively new and not supported on older browsers like IE11. But DO use it for content you want hidden from all users. Do not use this CSS if you want the content to be read by a screen reader. The content is removed from the visual flow of the page and is ignored by screen readers. These styles will hide content from all users. It's important that a technique be implemented that results in the desired outcome and accessibility. Note: I’m running in HTML 4.01 strict mode.There are several mechanisms that can be used for hiding content. At that point, I’ll know for sure how well this cleaner version of the code works. I should have the work done on the pages this morning and begin final testing. This was a remarkably easy way to switch over my pre formatted text. I used the replace function of notepad to replace any double spaces with followed by a space. White-space:normal seems to get the wrapping started and standard html tags like and work best for adding white space to the text. In my case, I wanted normal wrapping behavior and preservation of formatting for the main text box on my web pages. Unfortunately, it only seems to work consistently well in IE8. ![]() I didn’t get at first that you found this desirable under some circumstances. Word-wrap:break-word initiates normal wrapping in IE6 and IE7, has no effect in firefox, and breaks words in the middle in IE8. The only thing that seems predictable so far is that white-space:normal initiates normal word wrapping in almost any browser. In fact the preformatting, attributes and tags in general seemed to be a little unpredictable. It was causing some odd display issues in Internet Explorer. ![]() (Just wait a day two for me to do some editing if you are running IE8 or Safari.)įorget what I said previously about white-space:pre. This isn’t a fancy way to go, but it should give predictable results across just about any browser.įeel free to check out my website. The best solution, at the moment, seems to be white-space:pre to preserve text formatting, using fonts that everyone has (like Arial ) and manually hitting carriage returns where the line of text should end. Unfortunately all of the word wrapping options seem to give me problems in one browser or another. I used white-space:pre-wrap with Firefox successfully and white-space:pre seems to work on almost any browser. (Unfortunately, I just found out about those last problems yesterday when viewing my web page at a client’s house. Safari had similar result as Explorer 8, but I don’t know if word-wrap should be blamed. My experience so far with word-wrap is that it has worked well with Internet Explorer 6 and 7, didn’t work at all with Firefox and broke the line of text in the middle of words in Explorer 8. ![]()
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