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Re: alt vs no alt on picture links

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From: Karl Brown
Date: Mar 1, 2017 4:25AM


+1 for Brian's comment. alt="" will meet WCAG 1.1.1 by giving screen
readers a way to ignore the image, and if someone queries it, the purpose
of the images are met by the text in the same link.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Lovely, Brian (CONT) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Yep, there's already (actually useful) text in the anchor that will read
> out: "Economic Development" for instance. The images are purely decorative,
> so alt attribute set to an empty value is the way to go.
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