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Re: Screen reader interpretations of images in text (not partof a link)

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From: Angela French
Date: May 7, 2012 10:04AM

>Is this something everybody knows and I just discoverred?
>-B

I always thought that screen readers would read the image filename in the absence of a specified alt attribute as well. And I thought that an alt attribute set to empty quotes, would ignore the image altogether. (My experiences comes from what I read).

Angela French