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alt attributes

PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:32 pm
by mmm
Interspire Email Marketer seems to produce some links to some tracking images without ALT attributes.
This triggers spam filters to assign lower values/block.
Hence, this non-ALT attributing must be prevented from.

How can one avoid any (links to) images without ALT attributes?

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:38 am
by Osensnolf
The only image that does/can not get an alt tag is the trigger image. I would think that Maborak could give it a default name of x or some other random variable to fix this issue.

It's minor but you are correct that the score is impacted because of this.

Maborak, can you add this feature so that all trigger images get a random string of text as the alt tag? Thank you in advance.

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:09 am
by mmm
It could even be an empty ALT tag, afaik.
That should make it simpler, as it would only require a non-variable code insert.
Waddayathink?

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:51 pm
by Osensnolf
Not sure if it can be empty but it would not be hard for Maborak to set it up so that it inserts a random 4-character value so that there is not a footprint if the same ALT attribute is used for each customer.

Sounds like an easy fix so I'm not sure why it has not been implemented.

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:38 am
by Osensnolf
Just noticed this with Mail-Testser when sending a test campaign so I guess an empty alt attribute is OK??

We found 1 images without alt attribute in your message body
alt attributes provide a textual alternative to your images.
It is a useful fallback for people suffering from sight problems and for cases where your images cannot be displayed.

<img src="http://domain.com/media/v52wO377903.FQWO7.54kS117.St8nH.jpg" height="1" width="10">

If you don't want to add an alt attribute, add an empty one: alt=""

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:17 pm
by mmm
Yes, all that was examined before I posted, thanks.

Does anyone know the file where the empty ALT attribute must be inserted?

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:37 am
by mmm
Fixed. Another 5% better test results ;)

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 4:55 pm
by triggaz
Hi can You share the file that needs to be modified?

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:27 pm
by mmm
triggaz wrote:Hi can You share the file that needs to be modified?



...\admin\functions\api\ss_email.php

ORG
$open_image = '<img src="' . SENDSTUDIO_APPLICATION_URL . '/open.php?' . str_replace('&C='.$info['confirmcode'], '', $linkdata) . '&F=H&image=.jpg" height="1" width="10">';

MOD
$open_image = '<img src="' . SENDSTUDIO_APPLICATION_URL . '/open.php?' . str_replace('&C='.$info['confirmcode'], '', $linkdata) . '&F=H&image=.jpg" alt="" height="1" width="10">';

use a mail tester to confirm +0.5/10 ie +5%
;)

Re: alt attributes

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:34 pm
by Osensnolf
Thanks for this.

This can be found on line 1018.