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If there is an image on the web page, there should be an alt tag to describe the image.

Alt Tags are used to provide a text based descriptions for images on a web page. To add text to the alt tags - enter the text between the parenthesis 

example:

< img src="images.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="This is part of optimization" >

There is a secondary aspect of the alt tag - it is used to provide information for the image for the sight impaired as a verbal description that gets translated into sound.

Although this too has been a point of abuse by many web site owners, the importance has diminished over time with this feature, but it is still a good practice and will also help with W3C compliance.

-=Smitty=- 

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