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High Contrast Proof CSS Sprites

January 25, 2010, filed under AOL, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Section 508, Standards, WCAG 2.0, Web Accessibility, high contrast; 12 Comments.

CSS sprites are a useful method to display graphics while preserving bandwith and improving page rendering times.  One of the problems  with CSS sprites when it comes to their accessibility is that some operating system display themes such as Windows High Contrast mode have the effect of hiding CSS background images. So if an alternative version of the [...]