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Re: Guessing ALT text for product images that are generated automatically

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Mar 1, 2011 1:33PM

Sorry about that url. Here it is again
http://feds.humana.com
Sailesh


On 2/28/11, Kerryn Sues < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello everyone and thanks in advance for your time and thoughts. We
> have had many discussions on this here, but would love to get any
> feedback.
>
> On our site we have images that are automatically pulled on to the
> page to illustrate a product. We don't know the actual content of
> these images -- e.g., the product might be a Bali holiday, but the
> picture may be a couple walking along a beach.
>
> The closest we can get is to *guess* the content of the image by the
> product title (e.g., ALT="Bali Holiday - 5 nights" or ALT="Bali") --
> we can't get as specific as ALT="Couple walking along a beach".
>
> So is it preferable to make a best guess at the content of the image,
> or to leave it blank with ALT="" or ALT=" " (seeing as other text
> content within the page describes the image).
>
> Thanks again,
> Kerryn
>