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User Experience (Usability)
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Nov 19, 2003 6:57 pm |
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re: something I thought was humorous... |
Paolo Pace
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Clearly this is an issue with your lack of creativity, Kyle. You should have labelled it, "Cold nipple cup thingy" or "pasty with really cumbersome tassel."
I mean really! ;)
-Paolo
Kyle Pero wrote:
> An internet marketer I work with was recently dismayed because the alt tag I put on an image wasn't "interesting". I thought this was very funny because the stock photo was a close-up of a stethoscope (which really couldn't get more lame) and the alt tag said "Photograph of a stethoscope".
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>This just screams, "You should've never had a graphic there to begin with!". I think Jakob Nielsen is correct when it comes to graphics, "Use graphics to show real content, not just to decorate your homepage".
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>I guess a good rule of thumb is: If you can't write a good alt tag for the image, it's probably not worth putting it on the site.
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>- Kyle Private Reply to Paolo Pace (new win) |
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