{"id":1085,"date":"2025-07-24T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/web-kb\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:59:04","slug":"accessibility-techniques-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/web-kb\/2025\/07\/24\/accessibility-techniques-css\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility Techniques: CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/#css\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/#css<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/css\/C6\">C6: Positioning content based on structural markup<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/css\/C7\">C7: Using CSS to hide a portion of the link text<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a 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