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Posted by Toby Inkster on 07/23/06 15:45
jojo wrote:
> No, it definitely is *not*. An image just expands the loading time of a
> webpage, so try to avoid it whenever possible. There is a tag for quotes
> in HTML (<q>, you already named it...), so why don't you use it?
Do you actually understand what a pull quote is?!
A pull quote is a part of the text which has been duplicated and pulled
out of the normal flow. If you include this content in a Q element amongst
the normal flow of text then a non-CSS browser, or a screen reader, will
read the pull-quote mid-flow, which will be confusing for the reader. By
including it in an image with alt="", the pull-quote becomes entirely a
matter of presentation, which is how things should be.
Consider the following in a screen reader or, say, Lynx:
http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/pull-quotes/1.strict
http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/pull-quotes/2.strict
There is a blue pull-quote fairly early on in the text, designed to entice
the reader to carry on reading. Viewed in Lynx, this causes the second
paragraph to read as follows:
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as
Communistic by its opponents in power? "The history of all hitherto
existing societies is the history of class struggles." Where is the
Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of
Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as
against its reactionary adversaries?
With the quote completely out of place. With the quote included as an
image, the second paragraph reads as:
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as
Communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the Opposition that
has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the
more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary
adversaries?
as it should. The second example makes far more sense to text-based
browsers, and to screen-readers, so is arguably better for accessibility.
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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