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Re: Adding alt tags to photos

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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Nov 20, 2009 10:35AM

Yeah I always add the image, and then that takes me back to the raw text of the post, and then I squish some alt text into the quotes. But I'm an old person who still likes to look at code now and then.

Carin
----- Original Message -----
From: John E. Brandt
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adding alt tags to photos


Sadly, the only way to still add the ALT attribute to images in Blogger is
to insert the image and then go to the HTML version of the blog entry and
manually change the code. Blogger, by default, enters the NULL Alt for all
images that are posted. You need to find the ALT="" and insert the
appropriate description. Nice tutorial here:
http://photographyblography.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-add-alt-text-to-your
-blogger.html

WordPress has a more better way of adding ALT information when the image is
first inserted.

I started to write a long-winded comment about "when to ALT and when to use
the NULL Alt" - but I decided against it. Save that for another thread, in a
off-list conversation or in some other forum.


~j

John E. Brandt
jebswebs.com
Augusta, ME USA
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