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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: May 24, 2011 1:09PM

It's my understanding and my past experience that if you use high contrast mode on Windows, background images will be disabled in some of the browsers. In fact, I spent a whole weekend once trying to figure out how in the world sighted people knew a table was sortable before realizing that the visual indicators were CCSS background images. Until then, i was starting to think all the sighted folk had some sort of user interface mental telepathy--or just went around clicking on things to see what happens.