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 :Thanks very much for your tweaks and corrections. Your input is vital. Can you confirm the comments about the blank alt text issue with images that are also links: that the screen reader speaks the image link filename because it has to say something to describe the link? Also can you confirm that on thumbnails, the screen reader splits the image alt text from the image caption with the following spoken words about the magnify icon: ""link graphic slash magnify dash clip.png"". Regards, ° "