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Re: Does it valid if image link has null alt text?

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From: patrick dunphy
Date: Sep 7, 2010 8:46AM

Do you need 2 links? Id suggest you eliminate your text based link and
use that as the alt text. In my experience, images that are links
require alt text as alt="" is meaningless to non sighted users.

Links must make sense out of context - the scenario you describe
doesn't.

Hope that helps.

Thanks!
-PD

On 2010-09-07, at 8:28 AM, Jeevan Reddy < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi Friends,
> Is it valid if image link has null alt text?
> Scenario: i've a image link and has a text link adjacent to it
> pointing to
> the same location.
> so if i use same text adjacent to that image as alt text, same link
> be read
> twice successively.
> if i use same text as alt text and combined image and text together as
> single link, it is some what ok, but same text read twice and become
> redundant.
> so i useded text and image together and has given null alt text
> (alt="").
> here it work well as for as accessibility is concern.
> Note: the images are not list items and i've couple of links like
> above in a
> web page.
> But my problem is As per SEO every image should have alt text, and
> links are
> the main for Google indexing.
> how does the above scenario effect on SEO?
> Awaiting your reply.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Jeevan.
>