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Re: Opinions/Facts on Alt Images

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From: Mike Barlow
Date: Jun 1, 2016 5:06AM

Léonie - I liked your article on emotion rich images and it made me think
about how I handle such situations.
Normally when I design a page, I advocate if an image needs to be someplace
and it is purely decorative then it should be used as a background image
(hence no alt attribute required).
If an image is NOT used as a background then it does need a non null alt
attribute.
And after reading through this thread I see no reason to change my method.
HOWEVER, what I will probably start to consider is IS this really a
"decorative" image or is it an "emotion rich" image?
Now if only there were some way for us to tell AT that this is an "emotion
rich" image vs a "content rich" image and allow users the choice of telling
AT to ignore emotion rich images or not.

*Mike Barlow*
Web Application Developer
Web Accessibility/Section 508 SME

Lancaster, Pa 17601
Office: 732.835-7557
Cell: 732.682.8226
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Not sure if this is useful, but a while ago I wrote about my take on
> images and alts:
> http://tink.uk/text-descriptions-emotion-rich-images/
>
> Léonie.
>
> >