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Re: How to dynamically fix thousands of images missing alt attributes using regular expression find and replace

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From: John Foliot
Date: Jun 14, 2019 2:15PM

+1 to Jon

< a href="___"><img src="jared.jpg" alt=""> Jared Smith</a> ;-)

JF

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 3:12 PM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Jared, can you explain what your thought is why images within a link
> should never have alt=""? Do you mean if the link has no other accessible
> name that would make sense but if the link had another accessible name that
> provided the purpose then the alt would be overwritten and so alt="" would
> be appropriate.
>
> Jon
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 14, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
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> >
> >
> >> From what I recall though, the original person was asking how to update
> the alts for thousands of spacer images that are not informative, and it is
> impossible to do this manually one by one.
> >
> > This makes more sense. This could be useful for fixing these. The
> > concern is that if a web sites has thousands of spacer images without
> > an alt attribute, they almost certainly have loads of images that
> > should have alt text defined. These would get caught up in the mix and
> > be given alt="".
> >
> > One relatively simple improvement I would recommend is to detect if
> > the image is inside a link. Such images should never have alt="", so
> > it would be best to omit these.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jared
> > > > > > > > > > > > >


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