Does JAWS support cascading style sheets (CSS)?
A. Yes, JAWS does support cascading style sheets (CSS). CSS is a way of marking up text using styles that are inherited by applying a set of style rules to a page without having to change the actual page content. For example, you can link an HTML document to a style sheet that displays all level one headings in red. There are some issues that authors of Web pages should be aware of when using CSS to ensure the page is accessible. When a page loads and JAWS processes the HTML code, it also processes linked and inline style information to determine which elements should be rendered. Any elements that use a style with the attributes “visibility:hidden” or “display:none” are not included in the JAWS rendering of the page. Exceptions are span tags within anchors, which are sometimes hidden but contain screen reader specific text. This is true for the JAWS 8.0 update, expected out early 2007. JAWS 8.0 doesn’t care about when you hide or make visible, it will correctly determine what is and w
