Comments on: Accessibility, Usability and SEO

By: Sir Pumpkin Longshanks

Sir Pumpkin Longshanks — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:28:09 +0000

You are right of course. Attribute and tags are different and this case was a bad time to use them interchangeably. As for the SEO benefit of title information, do you have any evidence to show that it does not have any benefit at all? My opinion is that it is additional information about the image that can be spidered by the search engine and is likely to be taken into consideration in some small way, perhaps in Google images for example. I think that the small amount of effort it takes to add makes it something which should be added to important images.

By: dani

dani — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:51:15 +0000

Hi, you wrote alt and title as attribute first. Then you said it as tags. The additional text which is match for SEO is only the alt text, not the title text.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:29:22 +0000

Great article. One correction–implementation of access keys (and tabindex) is no longer considered good practice. Also, it’s better to cite WCAG 2.0 for web accessibility definition and guidelines. ADA and Section 508 are badly outdated and incomplete.