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Re: AT and ALT text in different languages

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From: Webb, KerryA
Date: Mar 6, 2011 4:57PM

>
> There's been a complaint about this page: http://votensw.info/enrolment
>
> They pointed out that the images in the various languages have English ALT
> text.
>
> Can anyone suggest how this could be remedied so that AT would read out
> the text in the appropriate language?
>

Just after I posted this, I found a reference to the use of the "lang" attribute, which would seem to fill the bill. I assume that you could put this in the <img> element.

Kerry
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