Hi All,
I'm developing an ASP site using Dreamweaver that will contain a directory of organisations involved in disabilities. It is essential that the site be accessible and that all images contain Alt text. Each entry in the directory will list an organisation's name, address, telephone number, etc. Some of the organisations listed also require images, namely, logos and symbols. The images load fine but without (obviously) any Alt text. How can one get Alt text to associate with a dynamically generated image? I realise that I will require a field in the database containing the text, but I'm stuck as to how to get the text contained in the field into the alt attribute of a dynamically generated image tag. I would be grateful for any assistance/advice to help me resolve this?

Thanks John

can you show us the code where you display those dynamic images?

The code for the row containing an organisation's name and associated logo (orgLogopath) is:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>
&lt;td colspan="2" align="left"&gt;&lt;h3 class="style2"&gt;&lt;%=(rsOrganisations.Fields.Item("orgName".Value)%&gt; &lt;img src="&lt;%=(rsOrganisations.Fields.Item("orgLogopath".Value)%&gt;" /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>

are those image files already uploaded in your server and these are just basically
a path to your directories?

e.g.

is this the field value?

&lt;%

rsImagePath = "domain.com/images/image.jpg"
%&gt;

why not update your records and just add ALT="textgoeshere"

you should have something like this in your database:

&lt;img src='images/LOGO1.jpg' alt='This is Logo1'&gt;

instead of separating the &lt;IMG&gt; tag, why not include it in your database?

Thanks for that it got me on the right track though I found that putting tags into the database field didn't work as the ASP was also creating tags and the code was rendered as:

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code> &lt;img src="&lt;img src='images/LOGO1.jpg' alt='This is Logo1'&gt;" /&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>


However, I found that It worked with the alt attribute as long as I placed a " at the end of the image attribute and the start of the alt attribute. i.e.

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>
images/gaddum.gif" alt="This is Logo1 </font id=code></pre id=code>

Again thanks John M

you did it wrong b'coz you used the &lt;IMG&gt; tag twice...

what I meant by that was to just display to record including the &lt;IMG&gt; tag:

&lt;%

rsdate("imagePath" = "&lt;img src='images/LOGO.jpg' alt='logo 1'&gt;"

response.write rsdate("imagePath"

%&gt;

anyway, at least you have figuired it out.

cheers!

LOL - rightfully put in my place.

Thanks for the follow up. My ASP knowledge is not great and I've done most of the work using Dreamweaver and following tutorials. So I can blame the folks at Macro..! -whoops- Adobe. But I see what you are pointing out to me and have learned from it. I'll be going about the task differently next time taking account of your comments.

Cheer's John