Kevin Powell - Community•17mo ago

how to visually hide a text for people which are not screen reader

So in this video of kevin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbBMp6yUXO0&t=86s&pp=ygUiY3JlYXRpbmcgYSByZXNwb25zaXZlIG5hdmJhciBrZXZpbg%3D%3D he created a button and added the text menu and a background-image to it and after doing this he added the sr-only class due to which for normal people the text was hidden but we can still the background-image and text was still there for screen readers but in this video he didn't show the code he used in the sr-only class

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6 Replies

Mannix•17mo ago

check the video description there is a link to an article about that

Brightie•16mo ago

try with this css code:

.sr-only {
  border: 0 !important;
  clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important;
  clip-path: inset(50%) !important;
  height: 1px !important;
  width: 1px !important;
  position: absolute !important;
  overflow: hidden !important;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
  padding: 0 !important;
  margin: -1px !important;
}

.sr-only {
  border: 0 !important;
  clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important;
  clip-path: inset(50%) !important;
  height: 1px !important;
  width: 1px !important;
  position: absolute !important;
  overflow: hidden !important;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
  padding: 0 !important;
  margin: -1px !important;
}

croganm•16mo ago

There's this great article and explanation out there from Josh Comeau who makes some amazing content as well. He has a whole react component which explains the logic and everything of it, but we can use the styles he provides to do it in any language. The CSS he used is as follows:

.visually-hidden {
  position: 'absolute',
  overflow: 'hidden',
  clip: 'rect(0 0 0 0)',
  height: 1,
  width: 1,
  margin: -1,
  padding: 0,
  border: 0,
}

.visually-hidden {
  position: 'absolute',
  overflow: 'hidden',
  clip: 'rect(0 0 0 0)',
  height: 1,
  width: 1,
  margin: -1,
  padding: 0,
  border: 0,
}

Here's the link explaining everything just for reference, but that css will work. https://www.joshwcomeau.com/snippets/react-components/visually-hidden/

VisuallyHidden

A convenient component for contextualizing visual content for screen readers

croganm•16mo ago

Very similar to this solution as well 🙂 Just figured I'd provide a link for some context on why it works

Brightie•16mo ago

So our codes are practically the same xd but the link with helpful explanation is always helpful oh btw the !important is to ensure that it will use these properties

croganm•16mo ago

Haha yes, concept is pretty much the same. I just like his explanations on the matter 🙂

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