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  Posted: May 01, 2006 - 06:10 AM

  I've just discovered an interesting plugin that creates images to replace text:
  
  http://www.cerdmann.com/imagetext/
  
  Having it available as standard would be a real plus for Theme designers (images are created from text and font and are cached).

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• HalbrookTech
  
  

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  Posted: May 01, 2006 - 06:19 AM

  It can always be included in anythemes that need it.
  
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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: May 01, 2006 - 06:54 AM

  I don't see this as something we'd want to include in the default package as it introduces accessiblity problems. Converting text that can be read by screen readers and bots into images that can't doesn't seem a like a valid approach.
  
  Try taking a look as sifr instead.
  
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• HalbrookTech
  
  

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  Posted: May 01, 2006 - 08:59 AM

  Of course wouldn't the use of ALT Text or TITLE text solve that Mark? Which, theoretically, the plugin should already do, and if it doesn't shouldn't be too hard to make it.
  
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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: May 01, 2006 - 09:04 AM

  Not necessarily.... It might work from the accessibility perspective but still isn't ideal. From SEO perspective i'd guess that it would be damaging since
  
  

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  <h1><img src....></h1>

  
  
  won't be anywhere near as useful to bots as
  
  

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  <h1>some real text</h1>

  
  
  sifr is the best of both worlds since the underlying text is still available to screen readers and bots.
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 01, 2006 - 10:59 PM

  Mark,
  
  I see what you mean. But sIFR is Flash, and you need to edit .fla files in order to create your replacements. So at the end, even if sIFR is opensource LGPL, you need proprietary commercial software to implement it.
  
  There are also problems with the interaction of sIFR with IE-last versions, http://novemberborn.…/sifr/eolas-patch-1
  
  Also worth to note is the complication coming from sIFR when printing is concerned, and generally (at least from a fast reading of the docs) in the tuning.
  
  Mike is right, the plugin already embeds the original text in tags, with some options.
  
  Anyway, never done something similar, should be enough to copy the plugin in the plugins dir of a theme to have it available?
  

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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: May 02, 2006 - 05:07 AM

  You're free to use the plugins in your own themes but I don't think we'd look to include these as a standard part of the distro.
  
  While sifr has it's own issues it's still better from an SEO and accessibility perspective.
  
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• remmingtonshowdown
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 23, 2006 - 04:33 PM

  Anyone have any luck getting this plugin to work... Any tips would be much appreciated... thanks all...
  
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• HalbrookTech
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 20, 2008 - 06:14 AM

  Regarding sIFR, there are sites and applications that will create the flash file from provided fonts. CoffeeCup Software makes one of them.
  
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