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Useful Alt Text?

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From: McDonald, Jennifer
Date: Jun 14, 2011 12:09PM

If your webpage has an icon (not a link) in front of a "Read More" link,
does that icon need to have alt text? When I run the page through JAWS
it seems overly verbose to me. What is read is: "Graphic - read more
image (which is the alt text at this time) - Link - Read More".

Is this useful to screen reader users? I would probably would not call
this a "meaningful" image and thus provide an empty alt. Would doing
this be detrimental to anyone? Just checking before I make that
recommendation.

-Jeni

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