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		elwell on Jan 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meanwhile, at code.org "View Source" shows imaged text duplicated in display:none block; surely for SEO (I don't see how it would be for accessibility; might be wrong). I was under the impression this SEO tactic is either ignored by search engines or penalized...

arbus on Jan 12, 2014 [–]

You would generally want to put that as the title or alt text of the image for it to get indexed correctly without any penalty

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