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A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article where I changed the way jQuery’s hide() and show() function work. After publishing the article there was quite a lot of comments where people expressed their dislike of the idea of changing these two functions. Thinking about it, I see how the title of the article led people to believe that I was suggesting that jQuery should change their hide() and show() functions to use positioning as apposed to display.

In fact …

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Yesterday I read an article by Aaron Gustafson on A List Apart regarding hiding elements with JavaScript and the accessibility implications depending on the technique used. As mentioned by Aaron the common way this is done in libraries, including jQuery, is by manipulating the display property.

In the article Aaron discusses five ways to hide content and what the accessibility effect is of each of these. Out of the five there is only one that passes the accessibility checklist and that is:

position:absolute;
left:-99999em;

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If you have been working on the web for some time and have embraced the recent focus on standards, semantics and accessibility and want to take you skills to the next level while learning some fascinating new areas of accessibility like multimedia and audio on the web, this title is for you. Written in a straight to the point style, the author covers a wide variety of accessibility topics as well as three extremely useful chapters on WCAG 1.0, Section …