- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:38:55 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Right - for level A conformance it's fine, but for higher levels you should not be using images of text (contravenes checkpoint 3.1 On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David Woolley wrote: > > If I have an image used as a link and I add 'alt' text > are there any circumstances where I would _also_ need > to supply a standard text link to the same target? Given that you shouldn't be using images of text, you will need a text version unless the image is a universally recognized icon (these are extremely rare as images in real web sites). If you are foregoing a high level of compliance and using text as images, you will need a text link if the text in the image is not in a clean font with good colour contrasts. -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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