If I have a photo gallery of, say, cute little kittens, should I have an
alt attribute on each picture?

Most of the pictures are pretty much the same. A cute kitten in some cute
pose.

I have about 200 pictures, and 200 thumbnails. Should each and every one
of these have an alt attribute?

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:17:20 -0500, Dan BEale
<usenet@dnac48.dabsol.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

They all should have it, it's required in the versions of HTML you're
most likely using. They should also have a meaningful alt attribute,
of course 200 pictures is a complicated job in annotating, and has
considerable cost, and in a non-commercial situation there's certainly
no problem in not doing so, but if you really want to be accessible to
all you should.

Ideally they should, it will give you many benefits, google will like
it, people will see info whilst it's downloadint etc. , but it's time
expensive, so I can appreciate why you don't want to.

Jim.

Dan BEale wrote in message ...
I personally find "alt" attributes annoying, crossing other close images,
especially if there's already a sufficient caption to the thumbnail image,
so I rarely use them despite having image heavy websites.

If someone has their text size in their browser set to "large" or "maximum"
(as many do), the captions are enlarged and consequently readable but the
"alt" text isn't, so to my mind it isn't much value as the thumbnail itself
should say enough.

I'm know I'm technically wrong (and lazy) but that's just one opinion of
many you may receive.

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http://www.BMWF650.co.uk
http://www.OnMyWindow.co.uk

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:26:39 GMT, "Trevor George" <t@onmywindow.co.uk>
wrote:

EH? You seem to have a problem with your user agent, if you don't
like ALT's popping up as a tooltip, then perhaps you should choose a
browser which doesn't, or insert a proxy like proxomitron to modify
the page so you never see it.

If someone wants to read tooltips, then they'll configure their user
agent to do it, it's not difficult after all, (in IE this is done via
global windows settings of course.)

Jim.

<uk.net.web.authoring , Dan BEale , usenet@dnac48.dabsol.co.uk.invalid>

Not if you dont want to .

But even if you dont put any text in them - its normally a good idea to
include the alt="" in the tag .


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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Trevor George wrote:

ALT attributes are meant to be alternative. On a proper browser you
wouldn't see them while the images are displayed, unless you took some
specific action to demand them.

Your logic is faulty. When the images aren't displayed, it doesn't
matter how many there are or how few: suitable alternative text is
needed.

You seem to be confused with title attributes. Popup texts can be
resized, but it takes a bit of finding.

"Barry Pearson" <news@childsupportanalysis.co.uk> wrote in
news:FfJ5b.4487$Ci1.663381@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net:

OK, here it is:

<http://www.bealoid.co.uk/dan/neko/index.html>

I used Jalbum to create the photogallery. I thought it generated valid
html, but it doesn't seem to, so I have got a lot of work to do.

I could use something like 'bkreplecem" to add a generic alt attribute,
then modify them afterwards.

And these are my two (fat, old, ill,) cats:
<http://www.bealoid.co.uk/dan/dancats/index.html>
(one big page of jpegs, no thumbnails or alt attributes)

<snip list of very good reasons to have alt attributes>

OK, I will put the alt attribute in, and I'll even try to make it
meaningful.

I'd like to thank everyone who replied. I see the need for alt
attributes and I'll start adding them. And making the code valid.

Dan Beale <usenet@dnac48.dabsol.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

Aaaaaaahhhhhh!

They capture the very essence of "kitten".

I love km_neko_004 & 026 & 011 & 036 & ..........

--
Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/
http://www.ChildSupportAnalysis.co.uk/

Please post info about this into http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/forum
so I can correct that. I haven't heard about it before.