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Re: CSS content property and empty image alt values

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Dec 9, 2010 10:12AM

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM, steven < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Is anybody familiar with screen reader support (or intentional lack of
> support) for the CSS 'content' property?
>
> I ask because I know that images generated by HTML markup are known to be
> read by screen readers, but I am thinking if CSS content itself is not read,
> then there can often be cases where presentational imagery serves no place
> in the HTML DOM and in such cases, would be better than serving images with
> empty alt values.
>
> What are peoples thoughts and experience on this.

See thread on www-style:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/www-style-thread-on-content

Summary:

It is not safe to use 'content' for decorative text, and it is not
safe to use 'content' for informative text, so use images for
decorative text and text for informative text.

Hope that helps.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis