Alt Text, tooltip, metadata & keywords.

I own a photographic stuido so our (3) sites are image driven with anywhere from 50 - 300 + images per site. I have been manualy entering Alt text and tool tips for the purpose of raising search visibility however with that many images/graphics it is way too time consuming. If there were a "fill all" option that would be great. Then I could go in and change a few words around in each image and not have to type everything over 200 times. Is that possible. Cut and paste is a step up but still tedious.

Hi Alan,
Please refer to the following link Alt Text on Photoshop Button
Regards,
Aish

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On 20 May 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Raizel wrote:
> In article
<[email protected]>,
> Joe Makowiec <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Not so. Alt text is used in /all/ user agents. The
only reason
>> you don't see them is that most user agents (ie
graphical browsers)
>> only display them if the image they're attached to
is not
>> available. Take a look at a site with and without
alt attributes
>> in, say, Lynx.[1] That'll also give you a pretty
good idea what a
>> search engine is seeing.
>>
>> [1]
http://lynx.browser.org/
>>
>
> I didn't see a screen capture of what the browser looks
like.
Lynx is text mode. There are a bunch of pages with
screenshots.
> And, it's not available for Mac yet so, if you know how
I could see
> it, thanks.
http://www.google.com/search?q=lynx+browser+mac
First two links:
http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
which in turn leads to:
http://home24.inet.tele.dk/ccadams/se/lynx.html
And I'm not sure, but since OS X is BSD-based, it may already
be
installed, or you may be able to use a BSD version.
> I do know that some visually impaired can use the same
OS/browsers
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hosted for our
> national blind institute. I was *amazed* at what's out
there!
> because the expo was geared at the newest aids, it
didn't show any
> text-browsers.
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you
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http://groups-beta.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver/browse_frm/thread/1bfae3cd41eb2 322/56e8408fcc1e5fc8?q=%22ice+cream%22+group:macromedia.*+author:meyer&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fh l%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26q%3D%22ice+cream%22+group:macromedia.*+author:meyer%26qt_s%3 DSearch+Groups%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#56e8408fcc1e5fc8
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http://tinyurl.com/5kel9
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
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