le_gber - 4:36 pm on Feb 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

bedlam,

thanks for the post.

I've been looking at some image replacement techniques lately and it is something I am still not too sure about - regarding the logo.

I believe that a visually impaired person wouldn't prefer one method over the other - i.e. hearing:
link to home page > mycompanyname logo
or
link to home page > mycompanyname (or mysiteurl as I have seen very often)

Telling them that their is a logo there would probably allow them to imagine on how the page is laid out.

... but then again I can be wrong

Just as a side note, I noticed that many website are using h1's to hold their site url / company name and use another one for their page title which is not semantically correct - and this is replicated throughout their website as the same image replacement technique is used on all the pages. Is this a know convention - using h1's - or is this used because it