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Re: PPT to clean HTML

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Dec 16, 2004 10:29AM

> I found a piece of wrong information in the content, though:
> "Images that don't convey important information or are used for
> layout are decorative and don't require alt text."
>
http://cita.disability.uiuc.edu/software/office/demo/index_files/textmostly/
slide15.html
> Of course they require alt text, specifically an empty one (alt=""),
> which is quite different from the lack of an alt attribute.

Right. Just to clarify that, they should have the alt attribute...just
without any alt text.

I am jumping in a tad late on this one, but isn't there a bit of irony in
using PPT to give an accessibility presenation? ;o)

-Darrel