[html4all] Opera and accessibility

Philip Taylor (Webmaster) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Mon Sep 10 09:31:11 PDT 2007


Whilst looking up "Opera" on the web (to define it
for the purposes of a WCMS procurement exercise),
I happened on http://www.opera.com/; intrigued
to see what the ALT text was for the masthead graphic

	http://www.opera.com/img/front/new/campaign-cpu.jpg

I discovered that (a) it is a background image (no problem
with that), but more significantly, that its message

	Opera for your computer

is hidden from non-graphical user agents such as Lynx.

Why, I wonder, do Opera choose to present text-as-image,
and then not give unsighted visitors the same information ?

** Phil.




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