SIR Image Replacement
Monday, July 10th, 2006CSS techniques for replacing text with an image have been around for a few years, allowing web designers greater options for styling text on a page. Early approaches turned out not to work as expected with Screen Readers, making the text less accessible than normal. In response, a variety of different approaches have been suggested—many involving extra span tags, lengthy CSS, or both.
Here’s my suggestion for an Image Replacement technique that’s accessibe, requires no additional HTML tags, and uses a tiny amount of CSS.
