Alt text not appearing in IE8

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i have the following on a webpage:

<img src="/images/icons/invoice-cancelled.png" alt="cancelled" />

and yet in IE8, with the accessibility option "Always expand ALT text for images" checked, it still does not show up. Any reason why this could be?

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