> Townson, Chris > I agree with your point here completely. However, in > pragmatic (;)) terms, > with current technology, text is just the only solution which conveys > meaning to _all_ users (not just those using graphical > browsers on a desktop > PC)
The only problem with having an image of a short piece of text, with proper alt, comes when users need to resize the text, granted. Apart from that, an image with proper alt is just as good to non graphical browsers. There is also the argument that, once users have such low vision that they require screen magnification, even bitmapped images don't necessarily look worse than "normal" screen magnified text, as even with many current magnification software solutions the software simply blows up the frame buffer (i.e. pixels) once you go over a certain size, if I remember correctly... But yeh...it's maybe not 100% ideal, but it isn't intrinsically bad either. Let's agree to disagree though :) Patrick __________________________________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
