[Nfb-web] CSS code to move primary sidebar before main content

[Brian Mackey]

Thanks, I will take a look.

 

From: Rachel Olivero [mailto:rachel at olivero.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:35 PM
To: bmackey88 at gmail.com
Cc: nfb-web at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: CSS code to move primary sidebar before main content

 

Screen reader order isn't affected by CSS positioning. You will have to move the call to the sidebar after the call to main content. Then you'll need to figure out why the main content styling is affecting the sidebar. My first guess is that there is a div or span that doesn't close out, so the CSS is getting included in the DOM as a child of another styled element. 

 

One way to test this, if you don't want to dig through the code and count tags is to use the developer tools in your browser. There should be a way to view the DOM as a tree. In Firefox this is on the inspector tab. You can then expand and collapse nodes to understand their relationship to each other. This should at least help you figure out what styles may be changing the text in your sidebar.

 

Just one starting place. 

 

Rachel 

 

 

Rachel

 

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On Jan 24, 2017, at 17:56, Brian Mackey <bmackey88 at gmail.com <mailto:bmackey88 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Greetings to all,

 

I am currently using the badeyes theme for nfbnj.org <http://nfbnj.org> . The way it is currently formatted is that JAWS reads the primary sidebar after the main content. Rachel had given me a suggestion to do this in my full width page template, but it did the job and made the text in the sidebar green. That was a good attempt, but I want to keep the default color for the text in the sidebar. What custom CSS code can I input to have the primary sidebar detected before the main content? Please let me know when you get a moment.

 

Thank you.

 

Brian A. Mackey

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