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

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From: Donald Evans
Date: Mar 1, 2011 1:48PM

Sailesh? Did I miss an earlier email? Is there an action item on my part.
Let me know please.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> 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
> >