Posted by William Tasso on 09/29/49 11:24

Writing in news:alt.www.webmaster,alt.html
From the safety of the LocusMeus.com cafeteria
Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> said:

> William Tasso wrote:
>
>> Which reminds me ... a few days ago I added a background image and
>> generally tidied up a very old page. The pic I used is quite famous to
>> those in the know, however it is largely obscured (almost completely in
>> IE).
>>
>> I wanted to add some comment to the page, noting pertinant info about
>> the
>> image. I settled on a short paragraph in the end, but it did occur to
>> me
>> that those surfing without images would wonder wtf I was talking about
>> and
>> that perhaps an image of the text (with no alt text) would be a better
>> choice.
>
> Well, if you'd make it an image, there is a decent percentage of
> people who will wonder what it says, cause they can't enlarge the
> text. They may not be blind, but still have bad eyesight.

Yes - I see (oops) that, so... what's a better solution I wonder?
Obviously the (background) image cannot have alt or title attributes, nor
can it be wrapped in a link/anchor.

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William Tasso

** Business as usual

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