On 16 May 2005 09:18:42 -0700, "Fritz M" <nospam@masoner.net> wrote:

>
>Big Bill wrote:
>
>> > you have some meaningful "alt" text for
>> > your images.
>>
>> Why this last?
>
>
>Sorry for the tardy response, BB. Busy weekend.
>
>I was thinking more in terms of accessibility rather than SEO.
>
>>From an SEO perspective -- In my very limited experimentation alt text
>doesn't really *seem* to do much, but I'm interested in learning what
>others have observed.
>
>RFM

It's ignored. But it is a good thing to do (morally) to put something
in to help handicapped folks. Sooner or later there'll be some big
publicity about this as pretty much all uk government related sites
are wildly in violation of their own acessibility guidelines. I'm
guessing that the papers haven't picked up on this because they reckon
joe public won't understand it anyway.

BB
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