Toby A Inkster said:
That's not what I said: I said that there are no pictures, implying that
there can be no alt text. If you look at my quote, you'll see I snipped
out the bit about resizability -- this is because I was not replying to
that. No alt text is needed as the text is right there on the page.
Lets start again. Open the page, the original one, with the nice chinese
character at the top right. Just underneath this there is a nav bar. At the
very top of that nav bar is the almost illegible heading "select a design".
This is, to my eye, text (once I get out my magnifier). It is words that I
should be able to read. I should be able to resize this text to something
large enough that I can read, just like I can with all the other text on the
page (once I exercize my accessibility options to allow this).
But that heading is not plain text. It is a picture of some text. Here is
the pictures URL:
http://www.csszengarden.com/001/h3.gif
Clearly this is a picture. It is a picture of some text. If you don't
believe me then point your browser at it. As I have said before the fact
that the picture is a CSS background rather than an <img> is totally
irrelevant. It is a picture of some text that is on my canvas. If this
picture *was* an <img> then I could easily get to the required alt text
simply by hovering over the <img>. As it is a CSS background there can be no
alt text and therefore no help for me, who can not easily read the text in
that picture.
THAT is what I am complaining about. The use of pictures of text, rather
than the real thing. THAT is the accesibility issue I have against this
site.
Now, on closer inspection I see that a non-css browser will actually be able
to see that heading because it is included in I presume a hidden <h3>.
However my CSS enabled browser displays the picture of the text. I cannot
resize it so therefore I cannot see it.
This has been shown by my prior mistake in not looking at each of the links
in that nav bar. I did not see the heading on the nav bar because it is a
picture of some text and therefore not resizable and is so bloody small and
illegible that I just did not see it at first. I thought it was some wavy
line decoration. When I squinted I realized it was text but I didn't bother
to get out my magnifier to read it. So, I did not fully understand what the
nav bar was for. Remember, first impressions count. My first impression was
"Hmmm, a nav bar, I'll get to it later, if I see the need". In retrospect
that heading text was very important. Far too important to totally hide away
in the background as a gif. I initially missed the whole point of the page,
just because of that picture of some text.
Cheers
Richard.