you guys are good!!!! I'm gonna do some reading myself it's very interesting.thanks

I am jumping in way late here, but adding my opinion just the same.

You should always add that alt text to any images, be it in VSD or hand coding images. The screen reader will read that alternative text for anyone who needs it. Not just for the blind. When doing research I can turn on the screen reader and still get myself a snack while I "listen" to the web page.

You can use a <noscript> tag to add content to anything like flash or javascript. If the visitor to the web page has flash animation turned off (maybe they are blind for example), the content between the <noscript> Read this description of the flash images in order.... </noscript> should be read by the screen reader and let that person in on what content would have been displayed.
I had one person say to me "what the heck would a blind person be doing on the Internet in the first place?" I said "surfing the net like anyone else". If I lost my site, would it be fair to ask me to loose my Internet as well?

Build your site for your audience. There is little to no chance at all that the E-Learning services I provide will be surfed by a blind person, so I have not added all of the possible features. Works fine that way for what the site was designed, but it's always a consideration when I build a new site.

For a mouse over text, the correct method is used by Firefox. Each image should not only have an alt entry, but also a title entry. You will then have something like:
<img src="some.jpg" width="100" height="100" title="image description" alt="another image description">

When programming the image, it does not take long to add the title while doing the alt, and you can make both have the same text if that is what you want.

Actually, I read that you should alter the text slightly in these two tags...and using slightly different text in each the alt and title tags gives you two more SEO opportunities

I'm at work right now so can't check, but does VSD even give the option of a title text slot? I only recall it giving button and alt text options.

Now I have a project to go back and adjust these tags. That should be something that will keep me busy and off the streets for a while.

Just doin' my civic duty, Bill

Hmmmm....you may be right. I don't use VSD all the time, so not sure...but I think you are right...

I forgot about this thread. Yeah, in doing a new VSD site I looked for a "Title" slot in the dialog boxes and there ain't so such critter.

ahh, phooey....well, one SEO op lopped...