Adding Alt Text to .jpg in Photoshop CS

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ann_danen
Sep 10, 2006
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I’m trying to add alt text to several jpg images in Photoshop CS. Is there a way to do this using File Browser (or other mechanism)? thanks

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chrisjbirchall
Sep 10, 2006
I assume you are talking about the text which show as a sort of "tool tip" when you hover over an image on the web.

This is done in the page’s HTML coding, not in the image itself.
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Ed_Hannigan
Sep 10, 2006
In the Slice Options dialog. Double click on your slice and there it is.

If you haven’t, you should learn some basic HTML
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YrbkMgr
Sep 10, 2006
And if you use Front Page, you should be beaten with a stick in a public square.
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Bob Levine
Sep 10, 2006
I don’t know about that, Tony. It really depends on what you’re doing with the site. For most people, even FrontPage is overkill.

Even I didn’t use anything fancy for mine. Just threw it together using SiteBuilder.

Bob
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YrbkMgr
Sep 10, 2006
Front Page uses non W3C compliant coding. It has confused nearly an entire generation of web authors. For example, Chris mentions the "tool tip" text as ALT text. That is NOT alt text. That is called "Title".

ALT text is a W3C specification that will represent a graphic when viewing a web page without graphics capabilities. It is text that is an alternate to an image.

The "tool tip" text is called "Title" and even Front Page makes it a PITA to find unless you know it. And so, Internet Explorer is the only browser that renders ALT text as if it were TITLE.

This is only one of dozens of examples.

Please, don’t perpetuate this bad coding.
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Bob Levine
Sep 10, 2006
If the coding is that important, then yes, you should be using Dreamweaver of GoLive. But for someone throwing together a website of family photos, who cares?

No different than pagelayout. For a school flyer, go ahead and use Publisher. For a newsletter or magazine heading to press, InDesign.

Anyway, we’re going way off on a tangent here and I really don’t want get into a big argument about it.

Bob
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chrisjbirchall
Sep 10, 2006
And so, Internet Explorer is the only browser that renders ALT text as if it were TITLE.

Interesting. Now that would’nt have concerned me twelve months ago. But recently, my log files show that the number of visitors to my site using IE has dropped from 97% down to 83% – with Firefox filling most of the gap!

Hmmm.
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YrbkMgr
Sep 10, 2006
There are plenty of great products, many for free to code HTML for a newb. NVU is one of them (http://www.nvu.com). Simple, elegant, compliant.

Of all the programs available, there is no reason, that I can see, to use one that codes improperly.
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Bob Levine
Sep 10, 2006
Looks interesting. I’ll check it out.

Bob
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stevent
Sep 10, 2006
And there’s even a portable version of NVU! So no excuse for all you code slackers! ha!

<http://portableapps.com/apps/development/nvu_portable>

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