RE: Background image

More to the point, by using styling effects to convey information needed to
understand the page you are breaking the checkpoints that require seperation
of style and the page's information...

If your background image conveys information  it shouldn't be a background
image - it should be a part of the information of the page.

cheers

Chaals

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Chris O'Kennon wrote:


  The same would apply, I assume, for images that are the backgrounds of table
  cells.

  Chris O'Kennon
  Commonwealth of Virginia

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Tom Gilder [mailto:w3c@tom.me.uk]
  Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:58 PM
  To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; Harvey Bingham
  Subject: Re: Background image



  On Friday, June 7, 2002, 5:48:07 PM, Harvey Bingham wrote:
  > Question: Does a background image need alt text? If so, how should
  > it be recognizable?

  No, it does not - unless the text is *essential* to understanding the page
  (few
  background images are however - they are mostly presentational).

  If the image is essential (does the page make no sense if you removed it?),
  then
  you could include separate text on the page, providing the same function of
  the
  image.



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