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Screen readers

Collection of utilities for improving accessibility with screen readers.

Visually hidden elements

The visually hidden style utility provides a common mechanism for hidings elements visually, but making them available for assistive technology. It's a simple style object of type React.CSSProperties.

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import * as React from 'react';
import Link from '@material-ui/core/Link';
import Box from '@material-ui/core/Box';
import { visuallyHidden } from '@material-ui/utils';

export default function VisuallyHiddenUsage() {
  return (
    <Link href="#foo">
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      {/* always visually hidden because the parent is focusable element */}
      <Box sx={visuallyHidden}>about how to visually hide elements</Box>
    </Link>
  );
}

If you don't have a strict CSP policy in place, you can also do:

import { visuallyHidden } from '@material-ui/utils';

<div style={visuallyHidden}>about how to visually hide elements</div>;