loading.gif without alt attribute

  • juniorbra

    (@juniorbra)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Lester,

    We’ve received a warning from our SEO software displaying that there are more than 6k images without alt attribute. Checking further we noticed that almost all of them refer to wp-content/plugins/wp-postratings/images/loading.gif.

    Is it possible to add an alt attribute to them?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    It is removed because Google is indexing the word loading instead. If you want to add it back, do the following:

    Use the dev version https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postratings/archive/master.zip
    Add this to your theme functions.php

    function wp_postratings_loading_alt() {
    return 'Loading ...';
    }
    add_filter( 'wp_postratings_loading_alt', 'wp_postratings_loading_alt' );

    timothystock

    (@timothystock)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    To make this accessible, you should include an alt tag, but if it is decorative you can leave the tag empty (accessibility requires there to be an alt tag, regardless of whether its empty). In this way you avoid the Google indexing also. So I propose:

    function wp_postratings_loading_alt() {
return '';
}
add_filter( 'wp_postratings_loading_alt', 'wp_postratings_loading_alt' );
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