RE: FN-FORUM: Accessible logos [css/html]

date posted 19th January 2006 12:56

Agree entirely - I'd taken things a bit further to include all website
images. However, I'd still say that on a low bandwidth device,
downloading a big logo (and some sites do have them) may be (a)
unnecessary and (b) detrimental to the site performance and experience.
But as I say, this is departing from the original idea a tad.=20

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Richard Quick
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:04 PM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Accessible logos [css/html]


2 things

1. A logo is FUNDAMENTALLY visual. It's not used to convey any
information or explain a concept - it's just so people who look at it go
"Oh, that' a can of Coke" (or whatever).

2. It's standard practice for the logo to link back to the homepage.

As a result I'd say that an image (with some alt text) in a link is the
accessible.



Rich Quick
http://www.richardquickdesign.com


On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:55, David Sadowski wrote:

>
> Good morning all freelancers!
>
> I have been searching (googling) for the best way of creating=20
> accessible logos i.e. those ones that always look nice and work=20
> despite javascript/css turned off - does anybody have an idea how to=20
> handle such thing using html and css?
>
> I came across bits of code such as:
>
> CSS:
>
> h1#logo {
> overflow: hidden;
> height: 0px;
> padding-top: 92px; // height of image
> background: url('img/logo.gif') top left no-repeat;
> width: 537px; // width of image
> }
> HTML:
> The company name
>
> According to the author of the above code the h1 text should be pushed

> down by a logo image and hidden using overflow property in css and=20
> become visible when images are turned off. It doesn't seem to work=20
> though. I get the text but not the background image. Checked the=20
> paths, file names and yet no joy.
>
> Many thanks in advance
> David Sadowski
>
> http://www.davss.com (still under construction ;)

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