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RE: Is this menu accessible?

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From: julian.rickards
Date: Jul 4, 2003 8:57AM

Hi John:

I am having a bit of trouble trying to pre-visualize your menu but I think I
have it. What it appears to me is that you have the link text (such as
"home", "products", "services", etc) as alt text for the graphic links as
well as within the span.

First of all, I recently learned that if a JAWS users is using IE, anything
you hide from IE using display: none is also hidden from JAWS so your
spanned text is going to be hidden from JAWS users.

Secondly, the alt text should be sufficient - if the image is not rendered
for one reason or another, then the alt text will appear in its place - the
need for the span text would be redundant.

If CSS is off but images are on, then both the image text and the span text
will be visible. If CSS is on but images are off, the alt text will be
sufficient. If CSS is off and images are off, duplication will be apparent.

I hope I interpretted your question correctly,

Jules

> In the style sheet the gif will be dimensioned to fit over the
> BG's, and the span will have 'display: none'.
>
> I figure that if images aren't rendered, the alt will serve, and
> if css is off the span will become the link instead.



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