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Re: Help on approach for annotating images

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Dec 1, 2005 11:40AM

> This should be no problem; alt="" is the only reasonable way (or, in
> some cases, alt=" " or, if the decoration actually appears as a separator
> too, alt="|" or something like that).

Wouldn't a " " alt make screen readers read out "image space" instead
of just skipping them?
I'd venture to say that in this day and age, decorative images should
be backgrounds in CSS and not IMG elements at all.


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