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Re: Image or text for 'Internationalization'?

From: David Gallardo <david@gallardo.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:12:04 -0700
Message-ID: <41981074.8040306@gallardo.org>
To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
CC: www-international@w3.org 

As a general accessibility issue, text should be text and not images, 
because screenreaders for the blind can't read images. Likewise for 
spiders/robots for search engines.

@D

Richard Ishida wrote:

>[...]
>2. should I use a graphic or not? (because it would be easier to translate text - mind you, it wouldn't be that hard to manage a graphic, given the amount of translation we have to deal with)
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>Answers/opinions please.  :-)
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>RI
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>Richard Ishida
>W3C
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Received on Monday, 15 November 2004 02:12:09 GMT

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