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replaced the alt tags with longdesc tags (was: Complication of the alt text issue) - Pt. 2

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 12, 2002 7:55PM

And for another thing, a screen reader like JAWS (at least the older
versions, can't speak for 4.0), when it encounters an image file with no alt
text it reads out the file name "a23tp.gif". Sounds wonderful... "Ay
twentythree tee pee dot gif"

JF
www.bytowninternet.com


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