remove additional image tags

[Congerman]

Hi, How can I remove the alt tags that appear on my product additional images?

My site sells prams and the additional images may be of the choice of wheels that the customer can have, or even some accessory, but when you hover over it the alt tag is the main product name which is not correct for the image. Please help. Many thanks

[Congerman]

Anyone help with this? It is really annoying

[DrByte]

You'll need to hack out the $products_name variable and replace it with '' in the zen_image calls of the module that's building those images ... /includes/modules/additional_images.php

[schoolboy]

Bear in mind that you "lose SEO points" for having images with no alt tags.

Additionally (if you are in the UK or EU) you are technically breaking the law. Provisions in the Disability Discrimination Act make it an offence to have elements displayed on a website that cannot be interpreted by a person with a visual impairment.

Yes, yes... I know that's pedantic. But it's not me writing the law!

[dbltoe]

In the US, it's Section508 of the Rehabilitation Act. It is not mandated here for other than those receiving Federal monies.

Still, all of the requirements (including alt tags) help a search engine to traverse your site. After all, they're all "blind."

[Congerman]

Thanks for the imput, I will try to find that bit of code. As for SEO I don't find my sites get penalised by any of the search engines for not having alt tags, I really don't think they carry as much weight as they used to. I have never heard of any law that would insist on them.

You say they help traverse my site, well yes if they say the right thing i guess, but I have additional images of wheels and the alt tag says it is a pram, so not really helping at all.

Is there a way to specify alt tags for each image?

Is there a way that I can turn them off site wide?

[Kim]

In addition to the above, the alt tag is a required attribute of the <img> tag - your site will not validate without them and non-validating sites can render improperly in some browsers.

[DrByte]

Is there a way to specify alt tags for each image?

No, there is no built-in way to do that in the current version.

Is there a way that I can turn them off site wide?

No. You don't want to do that.

The method I described will remove them for *just* the additional-product-images.

[Congerman]

Great thanks. There are quite a few $products_name in that file do I remove them all?

[DrByte]

You'll need to hack out the $products_name variable and replace it with '' in the zen_image calls of the module that's building those images ... /includes/modules/additional_images.php

Great thanks. There are quite a few $products_name in that file do I remove them all?

Um no ... as I said, only the ones in the zen_image function calls.