Is it important to i18n your img alt attributes?

For those of you who i18n, do you i18n 开发者_开发知识库the alt attribute on your img tags? Is it really worth it?

Well, I guess if you wanted your site to be truly i18n'd, then yes.

It might be an extra headache, but some vision impaired people out there are thanking you :)

Also, are you using i18n JavaScript strings too?

If you decide to translate your alt tags and find yourself needing to manage and / or just get the actual translation done we have (what I like to think, obviously :) a pretty cool tool called String - http://mygengo.com/string

String is great for not just managing translations, where you can invite others to projects to help with translation, but you can order translations right in the service too. We've integrated our API into String to showcase our API and the ability to see status updates for numerous (100s...1000s) of jobs, translated by real people!

If you're interested in the API itself, we held a bounty contest not long ago with some fun winners for a number of platforms (Wordpress, Django, etc.): http://mygengo.com/services/api/lab/winners/

Just thought I'd share.