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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Sep 13, 2010 10:27PM

Hello!
Can you check whether your outlook2007 editor is HTML, if not try to change
editor from plane or rich text to HTML, you may notice reading alt text of
the images in the mails
Best Regards,
Jeevan.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7500) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I myself do not create e-mails with images in them, but many folksin my
> organization do.
> I have found instructions for adding ALT text to images in MS Word, and it
> is my understanding that they should carry over to an HTML e-mail with no
> problem. But it is also my understanding that Outlook 2007 does not display
> the ALT text for those images.
>
> Any pointers that you'd recommend I pass along to those who insist on using
> images in their e-mails? Our issue right now is that people are sending out
> official announcements via e-mail and some of the actual content is in the
> images, which is why the ALT text is so important. In the interim, I'm
> suggesting that they make sure that any content essential to the
> announcement be directly in the text content and not in the images, until we
> figure out what to do with them.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Courtney
>