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Posted by Pete on October 10, 2007, 8:34 pm
Please log in for more thread options >On 10/10/2007 12:03 PM, Pete wrote:
>> There's probably a standard answer for this, but it's never cropped up
>> for me before.
>>
>> I have a (png) image that includes some text (a labelled group photo
>> of a conference), and it'd be useful if a search engine can find those
>> embedded names too -- without redundantly placing them in visible HTML
>> text. What's a good way to do this?
>>
>
>Imagine a blind person using an audio browser. He can't see your image,
>but his browser "reads" the rest of the page aloud to him. The audio
>browser also reads the text from ALT attributes. The ALT attribute for
>your image should thus contain enough text to at least inform a blind
>user what the image was about. If that cannot be done without quoting
>the text in the image, then you should indeed quote the text in the ALT
>attribute.
Yes -- as long as as search engine does the same... (I presume so, but that
was my original question.) This particular image would probably not be much
use to a blind user, as it simply associates names with faces.
>
>This is one reason why images should NOT be used to convey text.
Totally agreed, normally. In this case though a) the image was sent to
me annotated, and b) the text has to be closely placed to match the
people -- something I wouldn't trust a browser to do.
Thanks,
-- Pete --
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