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From: Keith Parks
Date: Apr 21, 2009 4:30PM

On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:50 PM, pixels 256 wrote:

> (2) I want to toggle between a cool background image (say,
> linewave.gif)
> for the screen and some (replacement) words in print.
>
> For the XHTML, I have -
>
> <div id="logo">
>
> <img src="graphics/blank.gif" height="72px" alt="Hello1" />
>
> </div>
>
> <div id="title">
>
> <h1>Hello2</h1>
>
> </div>
>
> For its CSS, I set #title {display:none} for screen.css and #logo
> {display:none}
> for print.css because I don’t want the redundancy of having both
> “Hello1”
> and “Hello2” read by a screenreader. Can those who use a
> screenreader (or
> visitors who choose to have images turned off) be able to view the
> alternative text in the <img> tag on their screen?
>

I'm a bit confused by your image names and description.

How exactly is the "linewave.gif" image incorporated, and is your
image "blank.gif" a transparent image (as is typical of images with
that name), or is it an image of the "Hello" text?

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Student Affairs Communications Services
San Diego State University
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