- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 05:00:24 +0200
- To: Julia Collins <julia@we3.co.uk>
- Cc: Daniel Smith <websounding@hotmail.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I wouldn't necessarily make an image if the thing really is primarily textual - and that depends on the thinking as much as anything. A textual logo will have the same text presented, possibly re-styled according to the user's idea of what suits them well. So each user should get it consistently, although different users might see different things. (So? Apparently colour-blind people see different things already - if they can tell what is going on this is a good thing...) A text logo is going to be very very very small in file size (instead of very small for well-designed web graphic logos). The progetto CABI (an Italian campaign for accessibility in libraries) uses a text logo styled with CSS. It behaves quite nicely, but they are not that worried if people change the font or colours. I believe that the font Microsoft use for their logo is considered a crucial part of the logo - they regard it as effectively an image that doesn't mean the same thing if it doesn't look the same. In an ideal world I would actually use SVG - you can have real text (select and copy it!) and adaptable display, with high quality graphic effects (animation, ...) cheers Chaals On Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003, at 10:41 Europe/Zurich, Julia Collins wrote: > > I would make an image and provide alt text, to explain that it is in > fact a > logo. > > Julia > > ----- > we3 > > ----- > design > print > web > ----- > > > On 3/6/03 5:34 am, "Daniel Smith" <websounding@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi all. Thanks again for the existence of this list. >> >> I am developing a site presently, and for various reasons I would >> like to >> use a text symbol as a logo. Would anyone mind speaking to the issues >> involved with this? For example, if I wanted to use a very large >> right arrow >> (>) or caret (^), alongside or above the company name, what should I >> take >> into consideration concerning making this accessible and not causing >> merely >> personal or text reader confusion? In a way I would hope that the >> symbol >> could eventually become synonymous with the site (among its >> audience). Can >> you provide alt text on text, etc.? Thanks for any possible feedback. >> >> Yours, >> >> Daniel Smith >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >> http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail >> >
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