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Archive for “April, 2008”

“Off left” banned by Google?

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Hidden text can be a spammer’s haven.
Years ago, when screen readers were at release 4.0, they started to change and actually pay attention to display:none. I ran a series of tests back then and knew exactly how every screen reader behaved. I was one of the earliest advocates of hiding helpful text off to […]


Very quiet at Access Matters

Friday, April 18th, 2008

The post just previous to this one is dated Jan 22. What you don’t see is “2007.” That’s right 15 months ago. What happened to cause blogging to subside?
In January 2007, I changed jobs. No, it was not to a different employer, but my sixth or seventh unique job at the […]