Re: Images in Headers

At 10:34 AM -0500 2/1/02, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>Personally, I think the idea of an image as part of a header is fine -
>associating pictures with words, ideas, etc is good. But a picture of the
>text you want seems like a bad idea to me, and is explicitly not allowed in
>most cases by the priority 2 WCAG checkpoint 3.1 When an appropriate markup
>language exists, use markup rather than images to convey information.
>On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, RUST Randal wrote:
>   Personally, I don't this that images should be used for headers, unless you
>   need a specific font.  Then you could use the "alt" tag.  Right?

You both said the same thing, except Randal mentioned what to do if you
need a a specific font -- since there's not an appropriate markup
language to do that.

--Kynn

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Received on Friday, 1 February 2002 12:08:14 UTC