According to Geoff Hutchison: > At 10:01 PM +0000 10/28/01, Malcolm Austen wrote: > >I would argue strongly that there _must_ be an option to have ALT texts > >indexed. To a blind reader (or listener) the ALT text _is_ the flowing > >text of the document. > > I think if we were to make an option to ignore ALT text, it would > default to being true. (Which I agree is the correct behavior.)
Hmm, the way I read that, you seem to be saying the correct behaviour is to ignore alt text. I suspect, though, that you mean the opposite. It all depends on what we call the new attribute. If we call it "ignore_alt_text" or something like that, I think it should be false by default, so that normally alt text is not ignored. As Malcolm also pointed out, sometime the problem isn't really the alt text itself, but just the fact that certain buttons or links shouldn't be indexed. That seems to be the case for Emil, given his last follow-up post. Using <noindex> tags, or <!--htdig_noindex--> tags as Malcolm suggested, might be the more appropriate solution in this case. 3.1.6 also supports a <noindex follow> tag to temporarily turn off indexing but still allow harvesting of links. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
