[livetech]

I know it's considered a general no no for hidden text, but I'm just wondering if it goes against accessibility issues.

Reason is, most of us on our various websites have a graphical header image.
As the graphical header image is within a DIV usually, then we can't put text there, as the text could mess up the layout.

What we used to do was put in the title and description of the website in a h1 tag, then set the h1 tag in the css to display:none. This was not done to game google, this was done so that if people were using screen reader software, or simply have an old browser, the the site could be browsed easily.

We now evaluate it on a project by project basis (usually governmental sites/legal sites we still adopt this methodology), but generally do not do this, after we've heard that Google doesn't like hidden text.

Do you do this on your site? Are we being overly cautious? Or simply having even 1-2 lines of hidden text means that we're shooting ourselves in the foot google wise?