Adding Alt Tags

To add an alt tag in Front Page 2000,

Open your document in Front Page.
In the normal view, right click on the image.
Select Picture Properties.
In the Picture Properties dialog box, fill in the Alternative representations Text: field with your alternative text tag.

Screen Shot of Picture Properties Dialog Box, Use Alt-X to move to the Alt tag text box and type in your alt tag text, then press the Enter key.

Click OK to include the alt tag in your document, then CTRL+S to save your document.

To add an alt tag in notepad,

Open your document in notepad.
Go to the code for your image tag. You may need to search for <img to find the image files in your web page.

Screen shot, a web page opened in Notepad, showing the code
for an image, without the alt tag.

Add the alt tag before the closing > of the image tag. In this case, the alt tag is:

alt="Sand dollar, a disc with 5 way radial symmetry."

Screen shot, a web page opened in Notepad, showing the
code for an image, with the alt tag.

From the file menu, choose to save your document.

When you view your document, you may notice that small boxes now pop up when your mouse cursor moves over the image, and the box displays the contents of your alt tag.

You may also refer to the Designing Accessible Web Pages Manual.pdf.

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