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From: Big John
Date: Jul 4, 2003 11:53AM

> 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.

Correct, except that the image will not have text, but just be a
transparent clickable link, and just a square on the left end of the li.
I plan to pull it out to full link width with css. That same css will
make the span go away.

> 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.

That's why the span will be removed via 'display: none'.

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

The only actual image text will be on the bg images, and those
will be off when css is not used.

> 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.

Yeah, alt and span together. I hadn't realized that, but I guess
I will have to live with it. Better duplication than nothing.
We're talking about a tiny percentage of users, right?
And this is a web design site, making the % even smaller.

> I hope I interpretted your question correctly,

Thanks for the help, Jules!
Big John



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