Anyone who knows anything about web accessibility knows that images need
alternative, or ALT, text assigned to them. This is because screen readers
can't understand images, but rather read aloud the alternative text
assigned to them. In Internet Explorer we can see this ALT text, simply by
mousing over the image and looking at the yellow tooltip that appears.
Other browsers (correctly) don't do this. The HTML for inserting ALT text
is:
But sure...
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