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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Aug 10, 2017 10:06AM

Thanks, Ben.

Yes, I agree. That is what I teach my editors.

Sarah


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Ben Regis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Sarah
>
> I'm glad you found solutions!
>
> With regard to Dan's comment - if the caption fully describes the image
> then an empty alt may be ok but in most cases a descriptive alt would be
> useful in addition to the caption. I think https://dequeuniversity.com/pr
> esentations/html5-nfb/figure-figcaption explains this well.
>
> Ben
>
>