RE: DHTML and accessibility

Dear Liz:
 
Ah, thank you, the important info here is how the layers are ordered.  Up
until now, I have created my layers happy go lucky.
So, actually I could make the logo layer last if it's just a picture with no
links: this way the reader will get to it last, and the user won't be
missing much if they link out of the page before the last layer is read.
Cool.
 
Dear Barry:
 
Thanks for the encouragement!  This may be the beginning of a beautiful
friendship  (I saw your title!)
 
Regards to both,
 
Dominique
 
 
 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Liz Bartlett [mailto:khyri(at)idyllmtn.com] 
Sent: Wed 4/23/2003 12:42 PM 
To: aware-techniques(at)hwg.org 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: DHTML and accessibility





Many assistive technologies that read a web page out loud
are actually looking at the source code, rather than what's
actually displayed (it often depends whether they're a browser
in their own right,or software working with an existing browser).

So - layers will be ignored, as what is "on top" of something
else doesn't matter in a non-visual sense! The content will be
read in the order it appears in the source code. So if your
source contains several "blocks" of content, positioned absolutely
with layering, make sure that the order they appear in the source
code is the order in which they should be accessed.

--Liz
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