Use text wherever possible, rather than picures of text:

How do you do this?

• Use style sheets to control the layout of text (W3C CSS Techniques for using text instead of images)
• Avoid the use of scanned text saved as PDF files

Why? Users browsing with images turned off will not see your text. Unless a picture of text is for decorative purposes only, consider using text enhanced by stylesheets. If your image of text is essential to the design of the page, consider saving it in GIF format with 128 colours or less, as this file type is smaller and the text most likely only requires a limited number of colours. A PDF rendition of scanned text is essentially a picture of text, and so is not readable by screen readers.

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These tips may be applied to any web site or Vista course, and are derived from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative but are not intended to reinterpret them. Web developers are encouraged to access the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 1.0, directly.