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Re: Regarding images lacking alts

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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Dec 6, 2012 10:33AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought one of the purposes of the first
script that Bryan wrote in this thread was to make the experience of
encountering images with no alt attribute better by at least assigning an
empty alt. I've noticed that JAWS tries to be "helpful" by reading the
source path out loud when there's no alt attribute. So I see this script as
something that could be included in a browser extension like Readability to
make the encountering of images with no alt less annoying.

However, now that I think of it, perhaps Freedom Scientific should change
the way that JAWS reads these. Wouldn't it be better if it treated no alt
the same way as it treats alt=""? I realize that it's trying to be helpful,
but it's so often not.

David