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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/2011Jun/0000.html from Reinaldo Ferraz <reinaldo@nic.br> In the *Example 6.4*, I consider important a short description to the image. It´s important even for a blind person or somebody who cannot load images perceive that there is an image with a purpose: create a medieval atmosphere to the webpage. I disagree that the image with description is only related to the blind or low vision webpage. The link example shows the users preference http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/#images
mass-move component to LC1
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