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Re: Help on approach for annotating images

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From: pixeldiva
Date: Dec 1, 2005 11:00AM

On 01/12/05, Christian Heilmann < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Wouldn't a " " alt make screen readers read out "image space" instead
> of just skipping them?

No, a screen reader will skip an image if it has either null (alt="")
or empty (alt=" ") alt text.

> I'd venture to say that in this day and age, decorative images should
> be backgrounds in CSS and not IMG elements at all.

Yeah, I'd agree, but it's not always possible, and so the above
methods are the best way to deal with them.

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Ann
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