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On 08/08/2007, Keir Moffatt <hello at iamkeir.com> wrote:
> I know display: none can behave strangely with screen readers but does
> visibility: hidden also generate strange behavior?

I don't know about strange behaviour, but the downside of using
visibility: hidden is that the element still takes up space, but
without being visible. display: none actually behaves as if the
element didn't exist (in CSS-aware UAs).

> Currently, for hiding things like accessibility links at the head of my page
> (styled as an ordered list), I use text-indent: -9999em and set key
> attributes to zero (line-height, font-size, margins, padding etc.).

Good plan. I've started setting outline: 0 so that you don't get the
marching ants extending off screen-left.

Tim