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Headings on this page :
- Acknowledgements
- Other images
- Logos
- General points - eg editing, filenames, "alt" text
- Related pages
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank the organisations and individuals who have allowed us to use their images on the CharityBags website free-of-charge. They include the following :
www.oxfam.org.uk
Our thanks to Oxfam.
For easy identification, we've renamed the Oxfam image files so they begin with
'oxfam'
www.scran.ac.uk
Scottish
Cultural Resource Access Network (charity)
Our thanks to SCRAN, and to the organisations and individuals who
kindly supplied the images to SCRAN - including James Gardiner and Saul
Gardiner (Ikon Scotland), Oxford Designers and Illustrators, Chris Robson.
We've renamed the SCRAN files so they begin with 'scran'.
www.freeimages.co.ukOur thanks to FreeImages.
We've renamed the FreeImages.co.uk files so they begin with 'freeimages-co-uk'.
Our thanks to FreeFoto.com. Their photographs are copyright. *
We've renamed their files so they begin with 'freefoto-com'.
www.milonic.comOur thanks to Milonic Solutions Ltd (suppliers of JavaScript menu software) for various images.
Our thanks to the Wikipedia Foundation and Wikipedia.
Our thanks to Wikimedia Commons - and the individuals and organisations who contributed the images.
Other images
Most of the other images on the site are royalty-free or produced by us.
We may have inadvertently reproduced some images from copyright sources without permission (or omitted to credit the owner). If so, please accept our apologies, and contact us so we can rectify matters.
We're not experts in copyright and can't afford professional advice.
Please bear in mind that our purpose is to raise extra money for genuine charities - such as Oxfam, the Children's Society, Cancer Research UK and the RSPCA. We don't gain financially from the site - see the Aims and About us pages.
Logos
Logos of organisations are reproduced merely as visual cues and for ready identification where we mention the organisation or their website. There's a wealth of research showing that images improve communication.
Our use of their logos is not intended to imply :
- that we are the organisation (or part of it)
- that we're connected with the organisation in any way
- that the organisation supports us (or our site) or has approved it in any way
- that we consider the logo is not copyright.
Our use of any logo (in effect) provides free publicity for the organisation, encouraging people to visit their site.
General points
Editing - We've made minor modifications to some images, in accordance with normal practice, such as :
- cropping, resizing
- converting to GIF format to allow transparent backgrounds
- converting to JPEG format to reduce file size
- blurring private/confidential details - eg one or two names and phone numbers.
Files - Most of the images on the site are small and compressed. So the pages should load quickly. Most of the image files here have jpg, gif or png file extensions.
Filenames - Out of courtesy to copyright owners, we have renamed some images by adding the name of the owner (eg Oxfam). Also we've added a note to the "Alt" text of some images to indicate copyright/source.
"Alt" text - We've added "Alt" text (ie alternative text) to most images to help users - for example people browsing with text-only mode, and visually-disabled users. It describes the image - acting as a caption.
You can see the "Alt" text in two ways :
- It appears in place of an image if the image hasn't been loaded.
- With some browsers (eg Internet Explorer), even when an image has been displayed, you can still see the explanatory "Alt" text by passing the mouse over the image. You can try it with the image of the flower below.
Captions - Generally, we've not added captions to images - partly because it complicates the web design and takes a lot of extra time (with the software we use). Instead we've relied on :
- the context making it obvious
- references to the image in the adjoining body text
- the "alt" text (see above)
- the filename.
![Flower ['Alt' text]](images/flower153_transparent.gif)
Related pages
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright - of material used from other sources
- Help - on using the site
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