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From: Rothschild, Joseph T. (CDC/CCHIS/NCHM) (CTR)
Date: May 29, 2009 5:55AM

Lisa,

I've worked with Lectora and accessibility for the last 4 years, and I can tell you that if you do things correctly, your resulting course can be very accessible and Section 508 compliant. It does, however require a lot of foresight and a few hacks and workarounds. The resulting html I seriously doubt is W3C compliant, but often that doesn't matter as long as it's 508 compliant.

Anyhow, yes, you can add alt tags to images, we often hide descriptive text that just screen reader users will hear under images and multimedia files, etc.

My suggestion is that you go to the Lectora Forum (now an cruddy wannabe web 2.0 portal - yuck!) and go to the screen readers section and poke around there. You'll be able to find a wealth of info there.

Hope that helps-

Joe
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