[thelist] Flash 5 Accessibility Kit, search engines?
Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns
skaiser at skdesigns.com
Wed Mar 21 16:38:22 CST 2001
Hi everyone,
I'm hoping one or more of you brilliant people out there can provide an
answer to a question I have at the moment....
[I'm cross-posting this with another list, too, so I apologize to those who
might get this twice...]
I'm making some final notes to an article I'm finishing on designing for
search engine optimization, and I have a question about Flash 5's
Accessibility Kit, specifically its feature of exporting text into an ALT
tag within the <NOSCRIPT> tag.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/accessibility/
>>
The Macromedia Flash Accessibility Kit includes the Accessibility HTML
publish template. Macromedia Flash's Publish feature enables you to make
all of the text and text equivalents from your Macromedia Flash movie
available to be interpreted by a screen reader or other assistive
technology. The template facilitates this by exporting text into an ALT tag
within the <NOSCRIPT> tag. The template also detects the presence or
absence of the Macromedia Flash player.
<<
Aside from the accessibility issue benefits, there may be even a small
advantage for search engine optimization by having the Flash contents
within the <noscript> tag. I haven't found anything on this, however,
except at Danny Sullivan's site in the members only area in terms of its
use with JavaScript (he states it's not a good hack to get search engines
to skip the JavaScript code since the content inside the <noscript> tags
will most likely be read by the search engines, not ignored. (duhhhh!!!)
So I'm wondering if any of you have used the <noscript> tags to provide
alternate text for people without Flash or other reasons and if by chance
you've found any benefits at all in terms of search engines. I also
recognize all too well that this would only be one small factor of many for
good rankings, of course.
It might be one of those things that sure doesn't hurt but may not make any
difference, too.
Any info, resources, thoughts will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Warmly,
Shirley
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