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Crawling input image's ALT text ?

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:15 am
by superdez
Do crawlers crawl the alt text on <input images too? They do crawl them on <a hrefs...

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<input id="whatever" type="image" name="whatever" value="whatever" src="..image.png" alt="whatever" />

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:15 pm
by John Cartwright
I know what a crawler is but in what context?

Screen readers for one rely on the alt attribute.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:35 pm
by superdez
I just want to know if google will index that kind of alt as well as the normal image alt. I'm thinking that maybe since its inside a button, it will not be taken into account for SEO purposes.