Comments on: Hidden ‘Skip Navigation’ Link

By: ElanMan

ElanMan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:10:20 +0000

Hey up there Kit!
Just been reading Simply Javascript published by Sitepoint and noticed an almost throw away comment which said that screen readers don’t read content that’s hidden with display:none even when the content is revealed later.
Have you ever heard of that one before?

By: Kit Barker

Kit Barker — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:23:50 +0000

Hi Ben – great site!

I’ve found that moving elements off-screen can have a knock-on effect with the positioning of other elements.

The way I handle this is with a simple:

#skip { display: none; }

And you’re done!