The <img> tag does not have an ALT attribute defined

bbeck4x4bbeck4x4 Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
edited August 8, 2013 in SmugMug Support
Where do I set this value, I have 47 errors for this from the photos on the front page of the site?

I also am getting an <h1> error for the text under my logo for the entire site, any ideas?

thanks
Brian Beck
Spanish Fork, Utah 84660- 360 Virtual Tours - Landscapes
Google + Facebook Website

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  • WiscoFrankWiscoFrank Registered Users Posts: 161 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2013
    Just curious .. errors where? I just browsed your site .. very nice by the way. And I get no errors.
    http://childress.smugmug.com/
  • bbeck4x4bbeck4x4 Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2013
    The errors are showing up on a SEO test for Bing Webmaster tools, Depending on the severity of the error img tags rank high, how many errors that you have effect your ranking. And thanks for the compliment, it has taken a lot of work.
    Brian Beck
    Spanish Fork, Utah 84660- 360 Virtual Tours - Landscapes
    Google + Facebook Website
  • WiscoFrankWiscoFrank Registered Users Posts: 161 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2013
    Ok, got it. Did old Smugmug assign Alt text to gallery images? I never noticed and now that images load so fast Alt text is kind of meaningless for it's original purpose.
    http://childress.smugmug.com/
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,016 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2013
    bbeck4x4 wrote: »
    Where do I set this value, I have 47 errors for this from the photos on the front page of the site?

    I also am getting an <h1> error for the text under my logo for the entire site, any ideas?

    thanks
    I looked in my Smugmug style galleries and none of the photos have alt or title tags. The legacy site had these.
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
  • paulbrockpaulbrock Registered Users Posts: 515 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2013
    WiscoFrank wrote: »
    Ok, got it. Did old Smugmug assign Alt text to gallery images? I never noticed and now that images load so fast Alt text is kind of meaningless for it's original purpose.

    but still plays a role in site accessiblilty. Plus its always good to have more text on the site, even underlying text, as search engines are so text reliant.
    London event photographer - www.paulbrockphotography.co.uk
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,016 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2013
    I just checked "Get a Link" under the share button and the photo links do not have the alt
    and title tags but the Embeddable links for Blog does have them..
    <a href="http://www.phot....C09327e-L.jpg" title="Oops caught" alt="Oops caught"></a>
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
  • bbeck4x4bbeck4x4 Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2013
    Hopefully it can be fixed with some new coding, Glad to hear that they still exist.
    Brian Beck
    Spanish Fork, Utah 84660- 360 Virtual Tours - Landscapes
    Google + Facebook Website
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,016 Major grins
    edited August 7, 2013
    I have always manually added the links to my blog with the alt and title tags and they soon appear on
    Google images but the Smugmug ones never show up there.
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
  • CanvasOfLightCanvasOfLight Registered Users Posts: 36 Big grins
    edited August 7, 2013
    You should originally add the title and description info on your image before uploading to Smugmug. This is not a blog where you are embedding an image and manually adding all the required information.

    I use Lightroom for that and all my photos are uploaded with titles and alt data (well, most of them..).
    Travel & Culture Photographer / Photography instructor
    http://www.canvas-of-light.com
    http://canvas-of-light.smugmug.com/
  • ablichterablichter Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited August 8, 2013
    Allen wrote: »
    I have always manually added the links to my blog with the alt and title tags and they soon appear on
    Google images but the Smugmug ones never show up there.
    100% agree. Mine also never showed up from here in Google images. That's why I left a couple of months ago the first time.

    My images were to find from DeviantArt, 500px and Fineart America at least after two weeks (in Google images) But even after three weeks up again with a SM site now, a simple but selective search for "joerg lingnau smugmug" shows nothing, nada, zero. Except a grabbed image of my old site from 17-07-2012.
  • ablichterablichter Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited August 8, 2013
    CanvasOfLight wrote: »
    You should originally add the title and description info on your image before uploading to Smugmug. This is not a blog where you are embedding an image and manually adding all the required information.

    I use Lightroom for that and all my photos are uploaded with titles and alt data (well, most of them..).
    Yepp, even when the "EXIF ImageDescription" or "IPTC Headline" are embedded (which is not in the example image below) they are only shown on images viewed in the Lightbox (regardless which size is chosen):
    <img class="sm-lightbox-image" alt="A monk lighting up candles in a pond during Visakha Bucha night in Chiang Mai, Thailand." src="http://canvas-of-light.smugmug.com/Portfolio/i-Fhw69fg/0/S/20120604-CoLP-0112-Edit-Edit-S.jpg&quot; style="height: 267px; width: 400px; position: absolute;" id="yui_3_8_0_1_1375961442874_5162">
    But not in gallery view:
    <img id="sm-tile-image-yui_3_8_0_1_1375960885008_5730" class="sm-image" alt="" data-clientid="sm-galleryimage-model_17" src="http://canvas-of-light.smugmug.com/Portfolio/i-Fhw69fg/0/S/20120604-CoLP-0112-Edit-Edit-S.jpg"&gt;
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