| Title | Alt attribute for images: image with empty alt attribute in link with link text |
|---|---|
| Description | A document containing a link with an image and text. The image itself does not contain text and has an empty alt attribute, but the link text describes the target of the link. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-22 |
| Status | draft |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: img
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
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Technical specification: How to specify alternate text .
This test case is intended to pass because the text alternative immediately follows the image.
End user.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 10, column 167) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-informative.
The test case passes (line 10, column 177) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-informative.
The image has a text description in the link text.
The img element has an alt attribute.
The test case passes the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20050211/#4.1_use-spec-document-backward-compat-violations.
The image has a text description.
The img element has an alt attribute with appropriate alternative text and therefore the img element is valid.