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From: Jared Smith
Date: Aug 20, 2009 6:45AM

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Steven Henderson wrote:
> Robin, I would personally ditch the logo image for a carefully placed CSS
> background. Logos in my opinion, server no semantic purpose to non-visual
> users

So you're saying there's no utility in the user knowing the name of
the site they have just visited? If the logo is a link to the home
page, it MUST be semantic because it has a function. Logos are
certainly important content and should remain in content and not be
relegated to CSS backgrounds.

Jared Smith
WebAIM