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Comment LC-1531: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: David MacDonald <Befree@magma.ca>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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I recently was evaluating a corporate web site that had image text as a title for a list of links. They had the image in the <p> element so Jaws would not identify it as a heading. I think we need a sufficient technique in 1.3.1 or an example added to H42 that says something like:

"Using heading markup to identify image text that is acting as a heading."

An example would look something like this.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Cities of interest</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><img src="../images/cities_of_interest.jpg" alt="cities of interest" width="91" height="95"/></h1>
<ul>
<li>Barcelona</li>
<li>New York</li>
<li>Paris</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMC] This is a specific case of styling something to look like a heading and not coding it as such. It could be enlarged, bold "text" as well as an image of enlarged, bold text. We have a CSS failure on this but not one using images. Discussed in the 21 December 2006 telecon: RESOLUTION: Accept 1531 as amended ACTION: Becky to write a failure in connection with issue 1531 http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/12/21-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} DONE Create a new technique "Failure of 1.3.1 due to using images of text to create style effects without using the appropriate markup. " draft at http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Failure_of_1.3.1_due_to_using_changes_in_text_presentation_to_convey_information_without_using_the_appropriate_markup and accepted 11 Jan 2007. (DONE David to add a "<p class="heading">" example) DONE add proposed example (from original comment) to H42 Internal WD updated 05 March 2007. Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0051.html; Resolution: We have included your example and have created the new failure titled, "F64: Failure of SC 1.3.1 due to using changes in text presentation to convey information without using the appropriate markup or text."; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)