Hello, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> schrieb am 26.12.2012, 11:58 -0600:
Yes, I have the same question. Why do you want to hide something from the screen reader that sighted people will see? I have heard of people using hidden text to tell screen reader users about a page with a better interface for them "Screen reader users click here for a better experience with out site". Sighted people cannot see it because it is a link that is hidden using css or something like that. I have never heard of things hidden on purpose from a screen reader though.
All right, following situation: On my blog I use a plugin to display code. The code is ordered in a table with two columns and one row. The left column holds the line numbers and the right one is for the code lines. The reason for this is, that you can copy the code without the line numbers. But now Orca reads all line numbers first and then the whole code block. Cause this is annoying I've contacted the developer and he suggested to use aria-hidden. So Orca would jump over the row with the line numbers and reads the code block directly. In this blog posting you can see an example, it's at the end of the posting: http://www.eric-scheibler.de/testblog/blog/2012/12/16/luftersteuerung-des-thinkpad-x200/ Regards Eric
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