[theme-reviewers] Accessibility Auditing of themes - next steps

[Phenomenoodle | Taryn Wallis]

Background images can scale if you use the background-size CSS property
with % and auto (e.g. background-size: 100% auto;)

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Sami Keijonen <sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi>wrote:

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>
>> I may have missed something, but generally, custom header images, if
>> using the core custom header functionality, are shown as CSS
>> backgrounds. That's the easiest and most compatible way to do it,
>> especially if you're designing to look good on mobile too.
>>
>> Now, I grant you that you don't *have* to do it that way, but
>> twenty-eleven/twelve/thirteen all do, and I expect many themes have
>> copied code from them. Twenty Ten, notably, did not do it that way and
>> used an IMG tag, with a blank alt.
>>
>> -Otto
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>
> There are pros and cons using custom header image as CSS backgrounds. Good
> thing is that you can show it only on larger screens with media queries and
> large header background don't get loaded on mobile. Not so good thing is
> that background image don't scale. Imagine that header image is a band
> image. In smaller screens only quitar player curly hair would be seen.
>
> So my opinion is leave alt tag blank when using it as an image, not CSS
> background.
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