- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:57:05 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Kynn, This is a really enlighening series of answers from web designers. I think it would be best on the wai-ig list. Would you repost all the wise-women responses to wai-ig? Meanwhile TO EVERYONE ON ER IG If you have opinions on these answers please wait till they are on wai-ig and answer there. Len At 10:41 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:45:30 -0700 >>From: Robin Liston <rliston@home.com> >>Subject: Re: [WW] Use of Textual Graphics on Web Pages >> >>I use graphical text a lot because: >> >>1) The client usually has some text in his logo which absolutely must match >>his printed logo >> >>2) The chance that most web users will have fonts that I specify on their >>computers (other than arial/helevetica, times new roman, courier, and >>symbol) are pretty slim, therefore I must make a graphic out of that text. >> >>3) CSS is still too buggy for me. I only use CSS on Intranet sites or other >>sites where I have control on the browsers and fonts installed on each >>computer. >> >>4) I know people with older browsers can't see CSS formatted pages properly >>(if at all), I do know they can see graphical text or the ALT tags. >> >>5) Sometimes I need absolute control how much space "text" should take up. >>I then use graphical text. >> >>6) Sometimes the only graphics on the page are the graphical text nav >>buttons. Without the buttons the page would be too text heavy and too boring. >> >>7) Maybe this has changed... but don't you need to use images (usually >>text/images nav buttons) for mouseovers/image swapping? >> >>9) Looking back on the sites I've done... I've used graphical text on >>every one. >> >> >>You have my permission to forward this to the WAI. >-- >-- >Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> >http://www.kynn.com/ > -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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