What is image replacement? If you are a web developer who cares about standards you have surely come across CSS image replacement techniques. If not, you can do a bit of research on the available methods of image replacement and the original Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR). The basic idea here is to use standard html markup containing text, and then replace it with an image using CSS. Using this method search engines and screen readers can understand the HTML, while at the same time your users get to see the image of the text. This is generally used when a web developer (or client) needs wants to use a specialized font for page headings instead of a web friendly font. (more…)

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