- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spinsol.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:11:11 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Hi All, > > You could try using a spacer image and then put your message in the > alt text. I don't know how that will behave in the screenreader but > it may help > get around the problem with the search engine. Perhaps not, since putting spider-bait in alt attributes is just as old a search-engine as hiding stuff using colour. On the other hand there isn't really anyway I can think of for spiders to know whether they are being baited unless there is a lot of repetition of words other than "a", "the", etc. Spider-baiting in itself is quite a problem for users of text, whether sighted text-only users or users of enabling technologies. I've quite often come across sites with little for a text-only user to read but the keywords they want to be listed over repeated 50 times. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOqisP4Fpv9f1Mr0YEQJ20ACfZipLrAQKdrmIxDnc1fw5B73J8jIAoKfk LAMLZ0nPZI7uZoUf08H0hjIt =vDlV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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