image alt text in fragments on the front page

[Phoenix164]

How can I give the images on my front page alt text from within actinic?

Thanks

[cdicken]

If you are using fragments to generate the images, they will automatically use the 'Title' field of the fragment for their alt text. You can vary this title text to change the alt text for your images.

[Phoenix164]

I am using fragments and firefox as a viewer.

If you have a look, you will see there is no alt text

[wjcampbe]

Firefox uses the title attribute and not the alt attribute to get "alt" tags.

[Duncan Rounding]

Firefox uses the title attribute and not the alt attribute to get "alt" tags.

This rasies some questions in my mind....

What is the way forward with this difference?
Are we to use the title attribute instead of the alt attribute in future (or both)?
Can we expect IE7 to be the same as firefox?
Does Google 'read' both attributes?

[NormanRouxel]

Firefox is being strictly correct. The TITLE tag is intended for mouseover type display of a visible image. ALT is intended for situations where the image isn't displayed (or viewable in the case of blind users using screen reading add-ons).

IE handles a missing TITLE tag by using the ALT text instead. This is actually a departure from the w3c standard but is also the way most people design pages so is almost the de-facto way people expect ALT to work.

The solution is to Edit Act_BrochureImage.html and change from

<!-- BrochureImage HTML begin -->
<!-- This file is used to build the brochure logo image markup. -->

<IMG SRC="NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEFILE"
	  ALT="NETQUOTEVAR:ALTERNATETEXT"
	  BORDER=0
	  NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEHEIGHT
	  NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEWIDTH
	  NETQUOTEVAR:OTHERIMAGEMARKUP>

<!-- This file is used to build the brochure logo image markup. -->
<!-- BrochureImage HTML end -->

to

<!-- BrochureImage HTML begin -->
<!-- This file is used to build the brochure logo image markup. -->

<IMG SRC="NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEFILE"
	  ALT="NETQUOTEVAR:ALTERNATETEXT"
	  TITLE="NETQUOTEVAR:ALTERNATETEXT"
	  BORDER=0
	  NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEHEIGHT
	  NETQUOTEVAR:IMAGEWIDTH
	  NETQUOTEVAR:OTHERIMAGEMARKUP>

<!-- This file is used to build the brochure logo image markup. -->
<!-- BrochureImage HTML end -->

And do a similar thing for Act_ProductImage.html, etc.