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1.4.5 Images of Text [Level AA]

Description

Images of Text:

1.4.5 If the technologies being used can achieve the visual presentation, text is used to convey information rather than images of text except for the following: (Level AA)Understanding Success Criterion 1.4.5

Note: Logotypes (text that is part of a logo or brand name) are considered essential.

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Sufficent Techniques

Sufficient Techniques for 1.4.5 - Images of Text

Note: Other techniques may also be sufficient if they meet the success criterion.

  1. C22: Using CSS to control visual presentation of text (CSS)

  2. SL31: Using Silverlight Font Properties to Control Text Presentation (Silverlight)

  3. C30: Using CSS to replace text with images of text and providing user interface controls to switch (CSS)

  4. G140: Separating information and structure from presentation to enable different presentations

  5. PDF7: Performing OCR on a scanned PDF document to provide actual text (PDF)

Advisory Techniques

Advisory Techniques for 1.4.5 - Images of Text
General techniques for non-text content

  1. Identifying informative non-text content (future link)

CSS Techniques

  1. C12: Using percent for font sizes (CSS)

  2. C13: Using named font sizes (CSS)

  3. C14: Using em units for font sizes (CSS)

  4. C8: Using CSS letter-spacing to control spacing within a word (CSS)

  5. C6: Positioning content based on structural markup (CSS)

  6. Avoid applying text styling to text characters within a word (future link)

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Failures

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Notes

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