What is the difference between these three for screen reader users?
I am trying to create a search text-field like on the Apple website. The HTML looks like this: <div class="frm-search"> <div> <input class="btn" type="image" src="http://www....
What is the difference between these three for screen reader users?
refer: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility
display:none: will not be seen nor heard. *
visibility: hidden: will not be seen nor heard. *
text-indent: 9999: will not be seen but it will be heard.
There s good explanation about this in A List Apart. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/ It depends on product.
PRODUCT DISPLAY: NONE VISIBILITY: HIDDEN Hal version 5.20 Does not read Reads IBM Home Page Reader 3.02 Does not read Does not read Jaws (4.02, 4.50, 5.0 beta) Reads Reads OutSpoken 9 Does not read Does not read Window-Eyes 4.2 Does not read Does not read
Please note that this article is from 2003, and the last change to that page on ALA was 2004. Things have changed. The WebAIM page was last updated in 2019: https://webaim.org/techniques/css/invisiblecontent/
There s a very good summary of how screen readers interpret these properties at WebAIM.
In a nutshell, visibility: hidden
and display:none
will hide text from screen readers just like it does from others. All other methods will be visible to a screen reader.
There are many techniques to hide content visually but have it available for screen readers.
The H5BP technique works in FF, Webkit, Opera and IE6+
.visuallyhidden {
border: 0;
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
height: 1px;
margin: -1px;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 1px;
}
Complete Answere is here to make sure chrome doesnt autoshow/autofill input boxes. On my web page ( New User) , telephone field and Password fioeld were being autofilled with cached data. To get rid of this, I created two dummy fields and gave them a class which makes them invisible to the user. A jquery function to show and then hide these after a fraction.
Jquery function to show & hide:
$().ready(function() {
$(".fake-autofill-fields").show();
// some DOM manipulation/ajax here
window.setTimeout(function () {
$(".fake-autofill-fields").hide();
}, 1000);
});
Class:
.fake-autofill-fields
{
border: none;
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
height: 1px;
margin: -1px;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 1px;
}
Input fields:
<input style="display:none" type="text" class="fake-autofill-fields" name="fakeusernameremembered"/>
<input style="display:none" type="password" class="fake-autofill-fields" name="fakepasswordremembered"/>
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