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on 5/12/06 13:38, Dave Sayer at dave at bathdesign.co.uk wrote:

> AFAIK, it is a reliable way of doing IR which works when images are turned
> off and css is on. It also works well with screen readers, etc. It uses an
> empty span element before the link text and overlays the image over the
> text, hiding the text. The only drawback is that you cant use transparency
> in the image as the text will show through.

I'm using that for the headers (although it doesn't work in IE 5 Mac), but
because I'm using CSS rollovers in the menu, which necessarily have to use
background images, there's no way to hide the link text behind them.

Once CSS3's "content" attribute happens, we'll be fine. Not until, alas.

Oliver.