From c2178198f4efab1179f14f8e612e99fefb4a6e10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Westwood <westi@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:03:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Default to an empty alt attribute on Avatars. Fixes #7536.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@9127 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/pluggable.php | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/pluggable.php b/wp-includes/pluggable.php
index ba1fdf6340..79ac280f64 100644
--- a/wp-includes/pluggable.php
+++ b/wp-includes/pluggable.php
@@ -1462,9 +1462,9 @@ function get_avatar( $id_or_email, $size = '96', $default = '', $alt = false ) {
 		return false;
 
 	if ( false === $alt)
-		$alt = __( 'Avatar' );
-
-	$safe_alt = attribute_escape( $alt );
+		$safe_alt = '';
+	else
+		$safe_alt = attribute_escape( $alt );
 
 	if ( !is_numeric($size) )
 		$size = '96';