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From: Karl Brown
Date: Aug 10, 2017 9:55AM

I don't know if it would count as a decorative image, but it's not good to
have the caption and the alt attribute filled out.

The guidelines say that there must be a text based alternative for non-text
content. In this case we've got two identical text based alternatives, so
one shouldn't be used. If the alt text isn't being used the attribute does
still need to be there.

I'm glad you've found solutions for the issues, Sarah.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Swift, Daniel P. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Follow the link below for an example of 'decorative' images:
> http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/#decorative
>
> Dan Swift
> Senior Web Specialist
> Enterprise Services
> West Chester University
> 610.738.0589
>
>