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Re: Help on approach for annotating images

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Dec 2, 2005 8:20AM

On 02/12/05, Joshue O Connor < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> However, you cannot apply alt text to background elements in CSS. So for
> any images that you need to apply suitable alt text to, include them in
> your source code in the traditional manner using <img>.

That's what image replacement is for. You move text out of the way
(text-indent: -999em) and put the background image in its place.

Tim