Posted by Toby Inkster on 07/23/06 22:11

jojo wrote:

> Depends on how you place the <q> where it is supposed to be. For example
> if you position it absolute

In which case, you can't (realistically) have the rest of the text float
around it (which is quite common in the case of pull-quotes).

> a screen-reader or text-browser will read/view it at the position where
> it is placed in the code, no matter where it is placed on the screen in
> "normal" browsers.

Yep -- but it will still read it -- which is the key. It's a piece of
visual fluff -- it shouldn't really be read at all.

Setting it as an image with alt="" solves both these problems.

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