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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Jul 20, 2002 1:13PM

PLEASE DON'T!!

alt="" is perfectly legit. there are going to be times when your judgement
MUST over-rule what a program "tells" you. If the images are truely
spacers, etc., then leave the alt text as: alt=""

Verify your document against a validator, you will see that a SGML parser is
very happy with this, and screen readers such as IBM HPR and JAWS will skip
over these items.

JF

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