Re: CMS required alt text for images

I believe wordpress does that. I see a checkbox that says "this image is
decorative".
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 12:11 AM Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 02/03/2019 17:54, Pyatt, Elizabeth J wrote:
> > Does it allow you to enter a space character into the field?
> > On most screen readers ALT=“" and ALT=“ " are treated identically.
>
> Worth noting "most", but not all. While JAWS ignores images with either,
> IE/NVDA and Chrome/NVDA (but not Firefox/NVDA) omit any announcement for
> alt="" but do announce "Graphic" for the alt=" " with the space.
>
> The most ideal solution, if possible, would be to tweak/modify the CMS
> to still allow null alt (which then actually outputs alt="" and not
> simply omits the attribute altogether).
>
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