FW: [WEB4LIB] Re: Sanity and web page creation

[Gimon, Charles A]

Their browser ought to be able to "read" the image, as long as there's a
proper ALT attribute.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Brennan [mailto:t.brennan at lib.unimelb.edu.au] 
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 8:45 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Sanity and web page creation


Also, graphic images for text disadvantage vision-impaired users, whose
browsers can't "read" the images!

Randy Souther wrote:

>  You can control the text size using graphic images instead of HTML
> text. This of course may introduce issues of file size and download
> time. And there will still be variations in size due to different
> monitor resolutions, etc. Even if there were a way to make the text
> look exactly the same size for everyone (there isn't), you would still
> have people complaining that it is too big or small.
>