[Accessibility_sig] PHP Accessibility - LINK!

James Craig james at cookiecrook.com
Tue Sep 26 11:58:58 CDT 2006


Jean wrote:

> <td class="nav" colspan="2"><a href="subpage.php?section=who"
> class="nav1"><span class="alt">Who We Are</span></a></td>
> CSS:
> a.nav1 {
>          display: block;
>      width: 152px;
>      height: 60px;
>      background-image: url(images/who_we_are_full.gif);}
>
> Result:  JAWS reads the word "graphic" aloud.

Jean, the last line of your CSS is this:

	.alt { display: none; }

This is the problem, not any PHP. Doug Bowman wrote an article
summarizing the problem and possible solutions... The "cover up"
method is the most accessible.

<http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/replace_text/>

Good luck,
James



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