[WSG] Semantic status of images in headers

[Hugh Todd]

A client of mine is teaching himself CSS. I took a look at some of his 
code today (at his request) and saw that while he had set up a 
hierarchy of headers (h1, h2, h3) in the HTML, he had done no more than 
put an image inside each of them, with an "alt" tag. One of them was a 
white rectangle inside the h1 tag, with an alt="Welcome".

My advice to him was that having the h1 tags around images doesn't turn 
them or their alt tags into proper headers. A text reader will still 
read the image as an image, and a web crawler won't find the h1 text 
it's looking for.

Then I had a tiny doubt. I thought it conceivable that an "alt" tag for 
an image inside an h tag could inherit status from its position. But it 
doesn't does it? Can anyone confirm what I told him?

Example:
<h2><img src="foo.jpg" alt="A great big foo." width="40px" 
height="40px" /></h2>

-Hugh Todd
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