Adding Alt Text

Article ID: KB101109

In FrontPage, you can provide alternative text for images. This allows search engines, text-only browsers, or people who have images "turned off" in their browsers to be able to read about the picture.

1. Right-click on an image in Normal or Design view and select Image Properties.
2. Fill out the "Alternative representation text" field in the General tab. This text should be meaningful, like "go," "search," or "diagram of Picture Properties dialog box."
   
   
    
3. Click "OK."

Tips:

• If the image is purely decoration, then type a space. If the image works as a bullet, you may type "* " as the description.
• You will want to do this for all images on your page, even invisible "spacer" images.
• If you're not sure what to put as the alternative text, read your page out loud from top to bottom. When you hit an image, think of how you would read it out loud to someone who couldn't see the screen.

Behind the Scenes

When you add alt text, FrontPage adds this HTML code inside the <img> tag:

<img src="diagram.gif" alt="diagram of Picture Properties dialog box">

When you view the page in Internet Explorer and mouse over the image, the alternative text will pop up in a "tooltip" style box.

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