Comments on: Hide the text of a link and show a CSS image http://makeitmobile.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/hide-the-text-of-a-link-and-show-a-css-image/ Getting your site online, and available to as many devices as possible Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:48:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: marblegravy http://makeitmobile.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/hide-the-text-of-a-link-and-show-a-css-image/#comment-30 marblegravy Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:02:36 +0000 http://makeitmobile.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-30 Hey Nick, I think you understood what I'm trying to do by the end of your comment! The problem is that if you are using background images, and have text in place for screen readers but are happily bumping that off the screen because you figure everyone who can see will have images turned on, if a sighted user comes to your site with images turned off for whatever reason, the css is still ditching the text content and therefore, they don't see anything. I'm sure there is a neater solution for this. Maybe a javascript widget that checks the user settings and changes the CSS approriately or something like that. Hey Nick,
I think you understood what I’m trying to do by the end of your comment!
The problem is that if you are using background images, and have text in place for screen readers but are happily bumping that off the screen because you figure everyone who can see will have images turned on, if a sighted user comes to your site with images turned off for whatever reason, the css is still ditching the text content and therefore, they don’t see anything.
I’m sure there is a neater solution for this. Maybe a javascript widget that checks the user settings and changes the CSS approriately or something like that.

]]> By: Nick http://makeitmobile.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/hide-the-text-of-a-link-and-show-a-css-image/#comment-29 Nick Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:38:20 +0000 http://makeitmobile.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-29 In that case why not just have the background images instead of the spacer gif! and not bother with the css at all. Might be more seo friendly no? since 1px 1px spacer gifs are infact evil. ignore me, you want the -300 for the hover effect. Hmm if you didnt thou... In that case why not just have the background images instead of the spacer gif! and not bother with the css at all.

Might be more seo friendly no? since 1px 1px spacer gifs are infact evil.

ignore me, you want the -300 for the hover effect. Hmm if you didnt thou…

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