ITunes Producer ebook delivery error

Hi, I have scowered the forums and tried to Google the answer but I can't figure out the problem.
I am getting the same error whenever I try to deliver my iBook to Apple:
ERROR ITMS-9000: "index.html(11): element "img" missing required attribute "alt". This error occurs 33 times." at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)
I have no idea what this means and I can't seem to find any information on it. I'm pretty sure the "33 times" relates to my Preview epub file, which has 33 pages in it. However, I have checked the metadata multiple times to make sure that all the fields are filled out. I don't understand why an "index.html" file would be involved in an epub file in the first place. I'm sure I'm missing something here but I can't for the life of me understand what.
Any help would be appreciated greatly.
Thanks,
Ken

It means that there is no alternate text for the image, in the event that it doesn't load. This will put text where the image should be, so that the reader knows that there was an image that was supposed to display there.
What it means for your ebook is that your images should be coded as such:
<img src=".../Images/ABC_bookcover.jpg" alt="Cover for ABC Book" />
Where the alt text is a description.
If you want to get around this quickly, you can simply open up all your .xhtml files in text wrangler and do a search for <img src= and replace it with <img alt="" src=
Even if you have nothing in the alt description, having it there will get past the check.

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