Wow! What a fantastic response! Thanks to Stephanie, Brian, Phillipe, Ken,
and Ali for responding to my question about empty alt tags.

All of your methods gave me something to work with. I had been adding the
quotes in the alt field in Dreamweaver, then going in and removing the
character entities from the source code one by one.

I need to add empty alt tags to a custom bullet. My understanding is that
the 508 guidelines permit either giving them an alt tag like "bullet" or
"check" (as mine are) or using the empty tag so that the screen reader
doesn't keep reading those if they really aren't necessary.

I like Stephanie's letter solution combined with Ali's Find Replace.

I also downloaded the extension from the URL provided by Brian, and I got
the tech note reference from Phillipe (I am definitely going to try this.)

Finally, yes, Ken, I am on a Mac and have BBEdit. I hadn't thought of that!
It will work too.

This is the most wonderful and resourceful group. Many thanks again.

Sheri
swan@swanilda.com
www.swanilda.com


> How are people entering empty alt tags (alt="") for decorative or spacer
> images in Dreamweaver? If I enter quotes (either smart quotes or inch marks)
> I get the character entities in the code. Will that then be read in the
> screen reader? I know this must be something simple that is eluding me.
>
> Sheri


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