On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
- Our images don't use the ALT tag. We use the TITLE tag, but only for
the
anchor link to the image page. What's up with that? Aside from being noncompliant with web standards, it also reduces our accessibility. And
is
an easy fix.
They don't? I just checked the "Catapult" article on the English Wikipedia, and the images with captions use those captions as the "alt" attribute.
Huh. Further investigation leads me to think that it is specifically images in templates that don't use ALT tags, probably because the image caption is not directly applied to the image, but rather to the template. (Still somewhat problematic since due to infobox-fever and the like, many of our articles have templates for their most prominent images.)
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To follow up: this is clearly a problem with the infobox template in particular. I've posted a request for it to be fixed in the appropriate place; it's probably not hard to implement.
But my question about the META ROBOTS tag still stands. Why hide our images from Google?
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