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Re: alt="" -- causing problems? with who?

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From: Raena
Date: Mar 8, 2007 5:10PM

Hi everyone,

On 3/8/07, I wrote:
>
> A coworker recently told me that she'd heard that using alt="" triggers a
> bug in certain screenreaders. This apparently happened at an information
> session she attended, run by Vision Australia. She says that alt=" " (with
> a space) was recommended instead.



Thanks for the information regarding the above, both on- and off-list; it
was enormously helpful! I for one will stick with alt="" for now. Haven't
chatted to Coworker yet, but I'll suggest she gets in touch with Vision
Australia again.

Asides from that IE bug, does anyone recall exactly which
screenreader/version did this? Or was it just IE?

Kindly,
Raena