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Pete Fairhurst wrote:
> I haven't legitimately identified a use
> for CSS Image Replacement over inline images for years now.

Got to agree, I don't know which user group it's supposed to help, and
it certainly doesn't help development.

The main group that inline images are difficult for (even with
appropriate alternative text) is those with mild to moderately impaired
vision, as images aren't easily expanded.

The only difference between replacing and inline images is that for 
images replacement, you *could* turn off styles to get the text. But 
people generally don't know how to do that, so it isn't really an advantage.

Done in what seems like the obvious way (display: none),
image-replacement can make the text invisible to screen reader users as
well.

What were the advantages again?

-Alastair