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Hello, I would definitely utilize alt tags. I like to be very thorough with the metadata, it's very important for many use cases. Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. Chief Information Officer Casanova Information Services, LLC Office Phone: (779) 205-3105 Mobile Phone: (708) 705-2945 Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 17, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Erica FINDLEY <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Good evening, > > We are currently experiencing a dilemma with alt tags in our digital > collections. > > We would like to include alt tags to be in compliance with accessibility > guidelines. > > When looking at an item detail page > <https://gallery.multcolib.org/image/widmer-kegs-trailer>, there is a lot > of surrounding metadata to help visualize the image, but on our search > results <https://gallery.multcolib.org/search/site> pages, that detail is > not present. Currently a screen reader is not reading the titles of the > images on our search results page. > > We are able to add alt tags to the image to help with this. Our dilemma is > what those tags should be so they are not redundant of either the title or > description metadata, but still helpful. > > Are any of you using alt tags in your images for digital collections > similiar to ours? If so, what guidelines do you use to create those alt > tags? > > Erica > > *Erica Findley* > Cataloging/Metadata Librarian > Multnomah County Library > Phone: 503.988.5466 > [log in to unmask] > multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org>