| Title | Text alternative for image button: correct alt text |
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| Description | A document with a form that uses an image button for form submission.
The alt attribute of the input element contains the words that are in the image.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-31 |
| Status | accepted QA |
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)
.
Technical specification: How to specify alternate text .
Feature: input
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: Control types created with INPUT .
This test case is intended to pass because the text alternative of the image in the image button (for form submission) contains the words that are in the image. This test is only for the text alternative of the image button, not for the label of the text input field or other parts of the page.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 13, column 90) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#text-equiv-all.
The graphical submit button has a text description.
The input element has an alt attribute containing an accurate text alternative.
This test case maps to technique H36: Using alt attributes on images used as submit buttons (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H36).
The test case passes (line 13, column 90) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-functional.
The graphical submit button has a text description.
The input element has an alt attribute containing an accurate text alternative.