Some of my text from an ALT appears to be a keyword that adsense uses

[dualfragment]

I put an ALT on an image that is an image map on my site with a little text and a link to the Site Map of my site for spiders and browsers that are text only, such as a mobile phone viewing the internet.

Apparently Google's adsense spider sees this text, and all my ads have one of those specific words in them. Is this bad or against the rules?

Would really appreciate any insight as I do not wish to break any rules that could potentially lead me to get kicked out.

[trader]

Using the Alt Tag is perfectly OK as far as I know with all the SE's, and its use is encourgaed by webmasters. It's main intent was for use by blind users or those who have image rendering turned off from what I understand.

It's also said the SE's read Alt Tag words to help in the process of figuring out the page content.

[leadegroot]

The search engines do index the alt text on images (and presumably image maps) which are clickable.
It makes sense that this will also apply to adsense.
This should be fine, provided you haven't done anything too spammy - if it was fine for search engine indexing then it should also be fine for adsense indexing
:)