I don’t see any overlapping text in Firefox 2 on Windows Vista SP1. What page did you have a problem with?
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Jack Kramer
Computer Systems Specialist
University Relations, Michigan State University
517-884-1231

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From: John Gorentz <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:52:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] C Store makeover

At 04:42 PM 11/10/2008, Michael Surato wrote:
>>>> On 11/10/2008 at 4:30 PM, MSU Network Administrators Group
><[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> At 04:17 PM 11/10/2008, Kim Geiger wrote:
>> >Hey, just went shopping and saw the new cstore.msu.edu design.  It looks
>> nice.
>> >--
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>> >Kim Geiger
>> >Information Technologist
>> >Broadcasting Services
>> >Michigan State University
>> >517-432-3120 x 429
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>> The home page has a lot of overlapping text in my firefox 3, and a little
>> bit of overlapping text with IE6.  
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>> The software and hardware pages show icons only and not text.  Isn't that
>> against the accessibility guidelines?
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>> John Gorentz
>> W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
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>Interesting. I do not see any overlapping text with Firefox 3.

My mistake.  I was using Firefox 2 here, not 3.  I don't have a Firefox 3 handy to try at the moment.

>The hardware and software pages have alt tags on the images. This satisfies the accessibility guidelines.

I suppose.  But it doesn't help those of us who like to find things with Ctrl-F.   Reminds me of the old saying that I just now made up:  "A word is worth a thousand pictures."   Probably not a huge issue with this particular page, though.  Maybe somebody will someday make a browser with a Ctrl-F that searches the alt tags, too.   (Or maybe somebody has already done it.)   

John Gorentz