Hugh
I think you are right. There is some debate about the use of image replacement techniques and how effective they are from a standards perspective. The best technique I have seen was devised by Todd Fahrner and is detailed at Jeffrey Zeldman's A List Apart.
Try the following links:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/
http://www.alistapart.com/authors/toddfahrner/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/_javascript_replacement/
and Douglas Bowman has his well respected opinion on the matter here:-
http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/replace_text/
HTH
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 04 October 2004 08:55
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WSG] Semantic status of images in headers
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="" alt="A great big foo." width="40px"
height="40px" /></h2>
-Hugh Todd
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