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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 15, 2007 2:10PM

Normally, when putting images on a web page, one sets the alt attribute
to blank for any decorative/non-content related image.

I have a situation where we're placing a random, decorative image on our
site's banner, along with a caption.

This is purely decorative (it randomly shows a picture of one of our
buildings with the name of the building). Because it's decorative, I'm
just putting it as a background image in an empty DIV. However, the
caption is text based, so has to be part of the HTML markup. Short of
having someone render all the captions as text, is there any method to
mark this as 'not important' for a screen reader?

-Darrel