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If your image is a spacer or purely decorative, use alt="" <img src='blank.png' alt=""> <img src='rounded_uppercorner.png' alt=""> <img src='horizontal_rule.png' alt=""> If your image contains rendered text, use that text as the alt <img src='logo.png' alt="My Company Name"> <img src='menu_item_news.png' alt="News"> If your ...


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[I'd be careful with that document, by the way. I can't find a definition of "update"(Jan 2012) vs. "revision"(Aug 2002), but either way, there's plenty of information on-line that's known to be up to date versus trying to figure out what's going on there.] For example, if there is a graph showing some data which is detailed on the the page contents, any ...


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I did some research, and given all that I read, everybody seems to agree that the alt text should really be an alternative, and alt="" is perfectly fine. This article suggests alt="" only in case of spacers. I don't agree. If good titles and filenames are used, stuffing alt with repetition looks like a wasted of time, and a completely disregard for ...


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If you want your pictures to be more discoverable on the web, I would recommend you to provide "useful, accurate information in your ALT attributes". Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/using-alt-attributes-smartly.html


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Interesting question. The way I see it, alt text should be redundant. Alt text exists as an alternate to an HTML image - I believe it was originally intended to display in the place of images when the page was for some reason not loading image content. But since the late 90's, there's a more important use for alt text - accessibility. Screen-readers for ...


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This is not a Blogger problem: Your blog always has a blogspot addresss www.yourBlog.blogspot.com When you publish to a custom domain, Blogger handles the re-direction from www.yourBlog.blogspot.com to www.yourCustomdomain.com for you - and every single post/page is redirected correctly. Now to move from oldCustomDomain.com to ...



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