- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:05:42 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
The WAI guidelines, for good reason, require real HTML text rather than images of text. One place where images are often used is the popular "folder tab" user interface, where each folder tab is an image... or the set of folder tabs as a whole is an image. The textual labels are part of the image, in violation of the guidelines. There's a way around that problem: you can use blank graphical tabs and use CSS to overlay text on top of them. There's an example and discussion of this at http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/wai/tabs/ Note that with method you control the background image as well as the colors, fonts, etc. by means of style sheets so you can give a choice of images along with color schemes and font changes. Len -- 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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