On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Tony Crockford <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> if you install Firefox's web developer tools, then you have an option to
> 'display alt attributes' which overlays each image with the text in the alt
> attribute.
>
If you don't want to install the web developer toolbar, you can just uncheck
the "load images automatically" option within Firefox, which will remove all
the images and replace them with the alt text - that way, you can check that
the page still makes sense with the images missing.
Incidentally, I just tried this out, and discovered that the first image on
Culture 24 has the alt text of "banner image"... :-) And pages like
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art71040 contain plenty of examples of alt
texts which repeat the caption, or which contain fairly meaningless
descriptions of the photos (eg "A picture of a man standing in front of a
wall").
I don't want to point the finger though. I'm sure nearly every website I've
every worked on has bad alt text too.
Which is why it's usually better to leave the alt attribute empty (or
indeed, missing, as per HTML5) rather than to fill it up badly.
Frankie
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Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
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http://www.rattlecentral.com
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