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Old 07-13-2007, 11:06 AM
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Default Re: Title vs. ALT with images?

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Originally Posted by deadhippo View Post
Everybody keeps saying "No stuffing" but what constitutes stuffing? I am considering designing a new storefront where there would be text with an image of a flag beside it. I thought I would describe the image with the alt tag eg. alt="USA Flag" and title="USA T-Shirts and American Gifts and Souvenirs" The image and the text would also be links to the same pages which would lead to a page selling USA t-shirts and other items.
Is this considered stuffing? Is it a bad idea?

That doesn't sound like stuffing to me. And while alt and title attributes of an image should be a description of the image, chances are that graphics on a given page can be appropriately named using a keyword, as they are likely to be relevant, as DrT pointed out.

For example, a fishing charter company logo can reasonably be named 'fishing charter logo' and a photo of the boat can reasonably be named 'fishing charter boat' ... and so on.

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