search component using picture alternative text

[Guest]

It is possible to enable the search component to search on
the picture properties' alternative text? It would be a
great way to add keywords that would not be visible on the
web page; it there another way to accomplish this?

Not having any luck.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

No.
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| It is possible to enable the search component to search on
| the picture properties' alternative text? It would be a
| great way to add keywords that would not be visible on the
| web page; it there another way to accomplish this?
|
| Not having any luck.
|
|

 

[clintonG]

Its doesn't take luck. It takes know-how

Here's a tidbit...put HTML comments into the fields of your database
but do not separate with any delineators such as commas -- use
spaces only -- anything that can search the database for the 'hidden'
words will turn up results but the results will not include the display of
the hidden words as they will be wrapped in HTML comments
preventing their display.

<!-- term1 term2 term3 -->

To achieve the converse: prevent certain words from being found
by searching yet still allow the terms to be displayed in a page calls
for encoding certain words stored in the database. The encoded
words can not be 'seen' by any search query yet the browser will
still parse and display them in the page.

Encoding is difficult to manage as it makes the encode text
unreadable but this technique does work for the objective I
describe. Example of encoded text...

A is the letter A for example.

If you want to learn more about this particular type of encoding
Google: "ISO-8859-1 character set"

Keep using the alt attribute as it can help improve search engine
ranking and is of course very critical for people with disabilities
who may be using screen readers to use your website.

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