- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:03:04 -0800
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, RUST Randal <RRust@COVANSYS.com>
- Cc: "WAI (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
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 -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201 Forthcoming: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours
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