Avatar alt tags that actually work

[SFishy]

Because I don't want there to be any confusion about what I'm looking for, and because I don't want to step on anyone's toes, I posting this in a new thread. I'm thinking it's a hack only because it doesn't work in VB "out of the box", but I've posted it over on vbulletin.com in the "how do I" area as well.

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I am using avatars on my board, avatars provided by me, no custom avatars allowed. Each avatar has a title/name, just like post-icons do. Post icons show the alt= tag as the title/name. (example below)...



...Avatars don't have this. How can I get it so that an avatar uses it's given title/name as it's alt= tag, just like post icons do?

In the postbit template I tried "alt=$avatar[title]" but that didn't work. Is there something I have to change in a .php file so it does work, the same way it does by default on Avatars Info Page?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.