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Thread ID: 45490	2004-05-23 22:03:00	Usage of Alt Tags in HTML	Chilling_Silence (9)	Press F1

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238833	2004-05-23 22:03:00	Greetings, Im just wanting to know if/where/when/why I should be using Alt tags in my HTML pages? If so, how do I best use them? Ive never been completely sure on why you would want to use Alt Tags (For text-based browsing?)? What are the opinions of fellow PF1'ers? Cheers Chill.	Chilling_Silence (9)
238834	2004-05-23 22:26:00	They can help increase your site's chances of being rated higher in a search	Greg S (201)
238835	2004-05-23 22:28:00	Sorry - shoulda added - they're not much use when you don't have any images www.htmlhelp.com	Greg S (201)
238836	2004-05-23 22:50:00	It's not correct HTML if you don't have alt tags, well if you've got images in the page that is. They're rather good if you have images turned off (quicker loading of pages), the alt tag will let you know what image would've been in that place. Will also come in handy with text based browsing (using something like lynx) I think, but I haven't done much text based browsing so I'm not totally sure. No doubt some text to speech programs will also have the ability to point out what the image was by reading the alt tag. In internet explorer it the alt tag will be used to create a small "tool tip" type flag when the cursor rolls over the image. The correct HTML for that is the title tag though.	-=JM=- (16)
238837	2004-05-23 23:41:00	also very handy if the site dosn't load properly (from poor net connection)	tweak'e (174)
238838	2004-05-24 03:48:00	It makes your site usable with text only browsers. :D If you were a US Government site, you would be required to use ALT, because they are bound by their Disabilities legislation. Think about it: a blind user can have a text-speech browser. Text-speech doesn't make very useful output from JPG files. ;-)	Graham L (2)
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