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Re: [css-d] Screen readers, etc.

Sent by Peter-Paul Koch on 13 May 2003 12:12


>>2. On a related note, do screen readers actually pay attention to style 
>>sheets?

>None of the web documentation for Jaws mentions style or css at all, so I'm 
>pretty certain it has no support. None of the free ones do.

I recently heard (but did not test) that JAWS is actually an 'aural skin' 
for IE, and that it does pay attention to style sheets (even to screen 
styles, which it should ignore). So if you give an element a display: none 
it isn't displayed (read).

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