Quick Tip About ALT Text
I learn something new just about everyday through Ros at CampaignMonitor. This time, regarding ALT text. If your ALT text exceeds the width for the image with some email clients, that alt text will fail to show up. Those email clients include Windows Live Mail, Yahoo! Mail, iPhone, Gmail and Apple Mail. So keep your alt text short and sweet.
If you aren’t already, take the extra effort to style each main image with ALT text. Make ALT text of the corresponding header graphic larger with a color that coincides with the background color of said image. This really is basic stuff that’s simply overlooked most of the time. And don’t wrap header tags around the images with more pronounced ALT text. This causes rendering issues in some clients, so stick with basic CSS styling.
Posted by Bryan Quilty on Oct. 05, 2010
Thanks for the awesome mention, Bryan! The long ALT text issue was news to me when I came across it - glad to know you found this tidbit of design advice to be useful, too.
Posted by Ros Hodgekiss on 10/05/2010 05:17 PM