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

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From: James Nurthen
Date: Mar 1, 2011 2:15PM

Sailesh,
I'm not sure I agree that the images in this (Humana) page have good
alt text. If they were not also links I would probably agree with you,
but in this page the four images you describe are also links.
The text "Family happy about the security of having medical coverage"
really doesn't tell me that the link is going to the page it does go
to. Note: this link does not appear in JAWS 12 in its default
configuration due to the "Filter Consecutive Duplicate Links" option.

Regards,
James


On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:32, 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
>>